Form 1A: medical certificate for a driving licence
Form 1A is a medical certificate. A registered medical practitioner examines you and fills it in to say whether you are fit to hold a driving licence. It is attached to the licence application (Form 2) where the rules ask for it. The doctor fills most of it, so your part is small. Submit it at the Licensing Authority (the RTO), often online through Parivahan's Sarathi service. In Punjab and Chandigarh much of this is done online, and the printed form is uploaded or taken along.
Issued by: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (Parivahan), under the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989
The form itself is in English, exactly as the issuing office prints it.
How to fill it in
- Stick a passport-size photograph in the box. The doctor signs across the photograph so that part of the signature falls on it.
- Item 1: write your name. Item 1A: write "son/wife/daughter of" with your parent's or spouse's name. Item 1B: your permanent address. Item 1C: your date of birth.
- Item 2: write two identification marks on your body, for example a mole or a scar.
- Item 3: the doctor answers Yes or No on your eyesight (including whether you can read a car number plate from 25 metres), hearing, night blindness, and any defect or loss of a limb.
- Item 3(g), optional: if you want your blood group and RH factor noted on the licence, tell the doctor and they will write them.
- "Certificate of Medical Fitness": the doctor writes your name, confirms the tests done (including colour vision) and strikes out "fit" or "not fit". If the doctor finds you unfit, the reasons are written below.
- The doctor signs, with name, designation, seal and registration number. You sign (or put your thumb impression) with the date. Ask the doctor to sign over the photograph.