MH-46 Panvel RTO: Address, Phone, Timings & Services

MH-46 is the RTO code for the Panvel Regional Transport Office, which handles vehicle registration, driving licences and related transport services for Panvel taluka in Raigad district. This page covers its contact details, jurisdiction and services — including an important note on its office address, which changed in 2025 but is still listed incorrectly on most other sites.

Important — the office address is updated to the latest record, and most listings still show the old one.

The Maharashtra Home Department ordered the Panvel RTO to move out of its longtime home in the Iron and Steel Market building at Kalamboli after the building was declared structurally unsafe in 2025. Official confirmation comes from the Raigad district government's own directory:

Regional Transport Office, Panvel — Valley Shilp Co-Op Housing Society, Building No. H-1, 2nd Floor, Sector 36, Kharghar Node, Tal-Panvel, Dist-Raigad — 410210

Email: rto.46-mh@gov.in

If you're planning a visit, call 022-27424444 first to confirm the office is at the Kharghar address before you travel.

MH-46 is the registration code for the Panvel Regional Transport Office, one of two RTOs serving Navi Mumbai (the other, MH-43, covers Vashi). It operates under the Maharashtra Transport Department and carries out the licensing and registration functions set out in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

Panvel taluka covers the CIDCO-developed nodes on the eastern side of Navi Mumbai — Kharghar, Kamothe, Kalamboli, New Panvel and Taloja — along with Panvel town itself and parts of the wider Raigad district. Vehicles registered here carry an MH-46 number.

MH-46 covers Panvel taluka, including:

• Panvel and New Panvel

• Kalamboli

• Kamothe

• Kharghar

• Taloja Industrial Area

• Ulwe

• Rasayani

• Shedung

Uran and Dronagiri are sometimes listed under MH-46 by other sites, but both sit in the separate Uran taluka, and Dronagiri's own PIN code (400702) belongs to a different postal circle entirely. We couldn't confirm either falls under this RTO's jurisdiction, so they're left off this list.

PIN codes we could independently verify against India Post-derived postal data:

One thing doesn't fully line up and is flagged rather than guessed: Kamothe appears under PIN 410206 in some postal listings and PIN 410209 (Jui-Kamothe) in others — the two haven't been reconciled.

If your address sits near a boundary between two of these localities, confirm your exact PIN through India Post's own directory rather than this list.

Many Panvel RTO services can be started or completed on Maharashtra's official transport portals rather than in person:

• Applying for a learner's licence test slot

• Renewing a driving licence (in most cases)

• Vehicle registration-related applications and payments

• Checking RC, challan and fitness status

Some steps still require a physical visit — most importantly, the practical driving test, biometric verification for certain licence services, and vehicle fitness/inspection. Exactly which services are fully faceless end-to-end can change and isn't something we could confirm service-by-service for this office, so treat the general rule ("start online, finish critical steps in person where required") as more reliable than any specific claim about a single service being fully paperless.

The learner's licence test is conducted online (a multiple-choice test on traffic rules). The practical driving test for a permanent licence is conducted separately from the administrative RTO office, at a testing ground associated with the Kalamboli steel market area, sometimes referred to locally as the Panvel testing track. We haven't found confirmation of whether this test facility was affected by the RTO's 2025 office relocation — news coverage of the move referred specifically to the administrative office building, not to the open-ground test track. If you have a test scheduled, confirm the test venue separately from the office address above.

Heavy and commercial vehicle fitness inspections for MH-46 are associated with a truck inspection ground in the Kalamboli area, distinct from the RTO's administrative office. As with the driving test track, we could not confirm whether this inspection ground's location or schedule changed alongside the 2025 office relocation. Commercial operators should confirm the current inspection venue by phone before sending a vehicle for testing.

Panvel, Kharghar, Kalamboli and Kamothe sit close together along the Sion–Panvel Highway / NH-48 corridor in Navi Mumbai, and the whole belt is served by:

• Rail: Panvel railway station, and the Mansarovar and Khandeshwar stations on the harbour line, all within the wider Panvel–Kharghar–Kamothe area.

• Metro: Kharghar is on the operational stretch of the Navi Mumbai Metro. If the office is confirmed at its Kharghar address, this is likely the more convenient rail option going forward — but we don't have a verified station name, line or walking distance to the specific Sector 36 building, so we're not stating one.

• Bus: NMMT operates frequent local routes across Panvel, Kharghar and Kalamboli.

• Road: The Sion–Panvel Highway, Old Pune Highway, and the Mumbai–Pune Expressway all serve this corridor.

Because the exact current office address is under verification (see the notice above), confirm the address by phone, then generate driving or transit directions from Google Maps or a similar service once you have it. We're deliberately not publishing a specific distance, route number or walking time to a specific building, since that would mean committing to one of the two conflicting addresses without confirmation.

Official Portals and Contact / Escalation

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

• Sarathi (sarathi.parivahan.gov.in) — driving licence services

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

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

• Raigad District Government portal (raigad.gov.in) — official listing for this RTO's current address and email

For escalation beyond the office itself, use the grievance/contact options listed on the Maharashtra Transport Department's own site rather than third-party "RTO agent" services.

Sources

1. Raigad District Administration — RTO Directory | District Collectorate Raigad, Government of Maharashtra

2. Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Department — Regional Offices Directory | Motor Vehicle Department, Government of Maharashtra (Official Directory PDF: Regional Offices Directory PDF)

3. Navi Mumbai News: Panvel RTO To Be Relocated To Kharghar For Employee Safety After Current Building Declared Dangerous | The Free Press Journal, 27 March 2025

4. Navi Mumbai: RTO office in Kalamboli to be shifted to Kharghar soon | Mumbai Live, 25 March 2025

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

6. Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Department — Official Portal | Government of Maharashtra