After a decade, the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) called on vehicle owners from Bagmati Province to get embossed number plates – that draw a lots of controversies since long – for their vehicles.
The department – issuing a public notice today – asked vehicle owners, yet again, to move ahead for the process of acquiring ‘the advanced type number plates’ to replace the current hand-painted vehicle licence plates from the beginning of the next fiscal year.
The embossed number plates to be installed in automobiles are divided into five categories, the department said, adding that the first type of embossed number plate is for vehicles used by the President, second type for vehicles used by government agencies. “The diplomatic agencies, commercial and private vehicles will also get separate number plates that appear shiny and can be traced from a distance.
Individuals can apply online to receive embossed number plates for their vehicles, the notice reads, adding that the owners of heavy four-wheelers need to spend Rs 3,600 to get the new number plates. “Likewise, car owners can get these license plates for Rs 3,200, while owners of auto-rickshaws and other three-wheelers will have to pay Rs 2,900 to get the embossed number plates.”
Owners of two-wheelers, meanwhile, have to pay Rs 2,500 to get the embossed number plates, it adds.
The embossed number plates come with microchips that enable to maintain uniformity in the issuance of number plates and prevent duplication. Likewise, the new number plates also help authorities to maintain digital records of vehicles – plying the roads – to collect revenue on time and control auto theft.
The plan to launch embossed number plates was included in the Three-Year Interim Plan 2007-10. As the process of embossed number pates started, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had intervened in 2010 following a complaint regarding irregularities.
The process also delayed after Parliamentary Committee on Development intervened suspecting foul play in the procurement process that handed over the work to print and supply the number plates to Decatur Tiger, a US and Bangladesh joint venture company. The government had begun the process of distributing embossed number plates for vehicles – from October 22, 2017 – on the basis of the provincial structure against the zonal format.
The Supreme Court later on February 23, 2018, issued an interim order to stop the issuance of the embossed number plates, seeking to make mandatory use of Devanagari (Nepali) font on the number plates instead of English. The apex court last December has paved the way for the government to move ahead with the process.
The department – issuing a public notice today – asked vehicle owners, yet again, to move ahead for the process of acquiring ‘the advanced type number plates’ to replace the current hand-painted vehicle licence plates from the beginning of the next fiscal year.
The embossed number plates to be installed in automobiles are divided into five categories, the department said, adding that the first type of embossed number plate is for vehicles used by the President, second type for vehicles used by government agencies. “The diplomatic agencies, commercial and private vehicles will also get separate number plates that appear shiny and can be traced from a distance.
Individuals can apply online to receive embossed number plates for their vehicles, the notice reads, adding that the owners of heavy four-wheelers need to spend Rs 3,600 to get the new number plates. “Likewise, car owners can get these license plates for Rs 3,200, while owners of auto-rickshaws and other three-wheelers will have to pay Rs 2,900 to get the embossed number plates.”
Owners of two-wheelers, meanwhile, have to pay Rs 2,500 to get the embossed number plates, it adds.
The embossed number plates come with microchips that enable to maintain uniformity in the issuance of number plates and prevent duplication. Likewise, the new number plates also help authorities to maintain digital records of vehicles – plying the roads – to collect revenue on time and control auto theft.
The plan to launch embossed number plates was included in the Three-Year Interim Plan 2007-10. As the process of embossed number pates started, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had intervened in 2010 following a complaint regarding irregularities.
The process also delayed after Parliamentary Committee on Development intervened suspecting foul play in the procurement process that handed over the work to print and supply the number plates to Decatur Tiger, a US and Bangladesh joint venture company. The government had begun the process of distributing embossed number plates for vehicles – from October 22, 2017 – on the basis of the provincial structure against the zonal format.
The Supreme Court later on February 23, 2018, issued an interim order to stop the issuance of the embossed number plates, seeking to make mandatory use of Devanagari (Nepali) font on the number plates instead of English. The apex court last December has paved the way for the government to move ahead with the process.
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