Electronic City RTO KA-51: Address, Phone, Timings & Services

KA-51 is the RTO code for the Electronic City Regional Transport Office, which handles vehicle registration, driving licences and related services for Bangalore's south-east / Electronic City sub-division. This page covers its contact details, jurisdiction, driving-test track and services — including an important note on its administrative office address, which isn't where its name suggests.

Important — the administrative office isn't in Electronic City. Most listings, and the RTO's own name, still point people to the wrong address.

If you're travelling from outside the area, confirm the Deverachikkanahalli address by phone or via the Karnataka Transport Department / Parivahan office locator before you go. The driving-test track (see below) is a separate location from the administrative office either way, so don't assume its address if you're only headed there.

What Is KA-51?

KA-51 is the registration code for the Electronic City Regional Transport Office, one of Bangalore's district RTOs operating under the Karnataka Transport Department. It carries out the vehicle-registration and licensing functions set out in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, for Electronic City and the surrounding south-east Bangalore catchment — including Doddathogur, Singasandra, Bettadasanapura, and parts of the wider Bommanahalli, Attibele, Chandapura and Hosa Road belt.

Despite the name, the administrative office itself sits well outside Electronic City proper — see the note above. The RTO code and jurisdiction are unaffected; only the address most directories show is wrong.

KA-51 Jurisdiction

KA-51 covers Electronic City and the following localities:

• Electronic City

• Doddathogur

• Singasandra

• Bettadasanapura

• Bommanahalli-area localities

• Attibele-area localities

• Chandapura-area localities

• Hosa Road-area localities

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A number of KA-51 services can be started or completed through Karnataka's e-governance and Parivahan framework rather than requiring an office visit — this includes many registration-related applications, ownership transfer paperwork, and licence renewals in a number of cases. Steps that generally still require attendance in person include the practical driving test, biometric verification for certain licence services, and vehicle fitness/inspection.

Exactly which services are fully paperless end-to-end changes over time and isn't something we could confirm service-by-service for this office. Treat "start online, attend in person only where required" as the reliable general rule, rather than any specific claim that a named service is fully online.

Electronic City RTO is one of a small number of Karnataka RTOs equipped with an Automated Driving Test Track (ADTT) — sensor-based testing rather than a manual pass/fail call by an inspector. This is a genuine differentiator: most RTOs in the state still use manual test grounds.

The ADTT is located in the Singasandra / Bettadasanapura area, evaluating manoeuvres that typically include figure-8 driving, parallel parking and a gradient (hill) restart. Independent references we found for KA-51's test track point to the same general Electronic City Phase 2 corridor, and the Yellow Line's Singasandra metro station (opened August 2025) now serves that general area — though we don't have a confirmed walking distance to the track itself. We have not verified the current appointment process, exact sensor layout, or slot-booking rules, so none of that is stated here as settled fact — confirm current test rules through Parivahan/Sarathi when you book.

The test track is a separate location from the administrative office described above — don't assume one address serves both purposes.

Commercial and heavy-vehicle fitness inspections for KA-51 are associated with a separate testing bay/open ground in the Singasandra/Bettadasanapura area, distinct from both the administrative office and the driving-test track. We could not independently verify current inspection scheduling or slot rules for this facility — confirm by phone before sending a vehicle for testing.

Electronic City, Bommanahalli, Arekere and the wider south-east Bangalore corridor sit along Hosur Road, and this belt has changed substantially with Bangalore's Yellow Line metro opening in August 2025:

• Metro: The Yellow Line (Namma Metro) now runs through this corridor, with Bommanahalli, Hongasandra and Electronic City stations all operational since 10 August 2025. Bommanahalli and Hongasandra sit closer to the administrative office's Devarachikkanahalli/BTM 4th Stage location; Electronic City station sits closer to the driving-test-track corridor. We don't have a confirmed walking distance from either station to a specific building, so plan your final leg by auto or cab.

• Bus (BMTC): Some current listings cite specific routes serving a stop near the Devarachikkanahalli office, but we've only found this from a single source, so treat specific route numbers as indicative rather than confirmed — check BMTC's own route planner for current service.

• Road: The Hosur Road corridor (including the Electronic City elevated expressway) and NICE Road both serve this belt.

• Parking: Described as limited in the surrounding area; we have not verified precise restrictions.

Get directions from Google Maps or BMTC's app once you know which office you need — the administrative office and the driving-test track are in different places (see above).

• Parivahan (parivahan.gov.in) — national portal for licence and registration services

• Sarathi (sarathi.parivahan.gov.in) — driving licence services, including ADTT test booking

• Vahan (vahan.parivahan.gov.in) — vehicle registration and RC services

• Karnataka Transport Department (transport.karnataka.gov.in) — state-level services and office directory

• National transport helpline: 1800-180-1551 (toll-free) — a useful fallback if a local office number doesn't connect; this is a MoRTH-wide number, not KA-51-specific.

Sources

1. Karnataka Transport Department — Official Portal | Commissioner for Transport and Road Safety, Bengaluru

2. Parivahan Sewa — National Transport Services Portal | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India

3. Sarathi Parivahan — Driving Licence & ADTT Booking Portal | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India

4. Automated driver testing tracks in three more districts soon | Deccan Herald, 18 March 2022

5. Electronics City RTO to get test track equipped with RFID technology | Deccan Herald, 5 May 2017

6. Namma Metro Yellow Line Transit Roster (Opened 10 August 2025) | Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL)

7. KA-51 Electronic City RTO Directory & Operational Timings | VahanX / Karnataka Transport Records