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Driving license in Nepal

A Nepali driving license runs in five stages: apply on your province’s eDLVRS portal, sit the likhit written test, pass the trial, collect the smart card, and renew it before it expires. This page is the map, and each stage says where it happens.

Apply or renew onlinePick your province, or type your district

Each province runs its own eDLVRS portal, for a new license, a renewal or a copy. Open yours:

All 77 districts and their province

The five stages

  1. 1. Apply on eDLVRS

    Each province runs its own eDLVRS portal, so which form you fill in depends on where you apply. All seven are open, and every license service on them asks for your National ID number. The department keeps an index of all seven, and the office you choose is where every later stage happens.

    How the form and the fees workThe seven license portalsFind your transport office

  2. 2. The likhit, the written test

    25 questions in 30 minutes, 4 marks each, and 60 marks to pass. Every question comes from the banks the department publishes, which is what this site is built on.

    What the likhit is, and what is on itPractise all 500 questions

  3. 3. The trial

    The practical driving test, taken at the transport office you applied to, on the date the portal gives you.

    What happens on trial dayWhere the offices are

  4. 4. The license itself

    Once both tests are passed the license is printed as a smart card and collected from the office that issued it.

    Check the print status, and collect itOffice websites and maps

  5. 5. Renewal

    A license has to be renewed before it expires, and a late one costs more. Fees are set province by province, so confirm the figure with your own office rather than any website.

    Renewing, online or at the officeLicense fees, province by provinceYour province’s office

Prepare for the written test here

500 practice questionsSplit into the six banks the exam draws from.A timed mock exam25 questions, 30 minutes, the real pass mark.94 traffic signsEvery plate in the three official categories, with its meaning.One question a dayA single question, the same one for everybody, every day.

Where this comes from

No fees are quoted: each province sets its own and they change every fiscal year, so ask your office.

Department of Transport ManagementThe eDLVRS portals

Checked against its sources on 19 September 2026.