High security number plates for Delhi vehicles by Sept '14

The Delhi government has decided that by September 2014, all vehicles in the city will have to install high security number plates in a bid to check vehicle theft.

Updated on: May 7, 2011, 19:20:17 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Get ready for mandatory replacement of old number plates of your vehicles with "tamper-proof" high security ones by September 2014.

The Delhi government has decided that by September 2014, all vehicles in the city will have to install high security number plates in a bid to check vehicle theft.

"All new vehicles from September 2011 will have high security number plates," said Delhi's transport secretary RK Verma. "Three year time period has been notified for old vehicles to get the high security number plates".

Delhi government had envisaged to introduce these modern number plates in 2002 by amending the Delhi Motor Vehicle Rules like many other states in India.

But, the idea of the new "tamper-proof" number plates got challenged in different courts, resulting in delay in implementing the decision. The courts gave clearance only in 2010.

Now, the Delhi government had issued a notification stating that no new vehicle will be registered in the Capital from September without a high security number plate having a hologram to prevent use of fake number plates.

Once installed in front and back bumper of a car, there will be no way to replace them, except from the government's regional transport offices (RTO). "To ensure security we have decided that the number plates will be installed only at RTO's offices and not by vehicle dealers," Verma said.

In the new regime, after buying a car you will have to drive it to the nearest RTO office to get the number plates installed. The pair is expected to cost Rs 500, although the Transport Department has invited bids from suppliers of high security number plates. "The lowest price is Rs 450 in Kolkata," the secretary said.

Once all vehicle registered in the Capital have new number plates, the government expects it will help in checking the motor vehicle theft in the city.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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