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RTO trains guns on fancy number plates

Under scanner: A fancy number plate.

CUTTACK: No more fancy number plates on Cuttack vehicles. The district regional transport officer (RTO) has decided to impound vehicles having number plates written in improper way.

“We have decided to launch a drive against all those vehicles having number plates not written in accordance with the provisions of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, said the RTO Premananda Khuntia.

Mr. Khuntia told The Hindu on Sunday that the drive would be undertaken in the city from Monday after a high-level meeting with police officials.

“The number plates should have only vehicle registration number written on them and nothing else,” he said. “We often see that some pictures, stickers or adhesive labels are attached to number plates, which is illegal,” Mr. Khuntia said. Even writing ‘PRESS’ on number plates by journalists or painting red cross by doctors or drawing a white collar band by lawyers on number plates of their vehicles was illegal, he added.

He, however, said such words or symbols, could embossed on any other part of vehicles. What about the government vehicles and the vehicles of political leaders or judicial officers having their designations and departments written on number plates? “They are also illegal,” Mr. Khuntia quipped.

The RTO pointed out that the vehicle registration number had to be written on the number plates only in English with Arabic numerals and no other regional language. “The letters of the required mark have to be written in English and the figures shall be in Arabic numerals,” he said, adding that the number plate of the vehicle was not meant to promote any national or regional language.

Asked about vehicles of the Police or Forest Department where the number plates were written on backgrounds having painted red and blue, Mr. Khuntia quoting rule books, said there was no such provision.

“In the case of transport vehicles, the registration number has to be written in black colour with yellow background while for others, it has to be written in black colour on white background,” he clarified.

The number has to be written with specific height and thickness and there has to be required space between them. While the numbers written on front plate has to be in one line and that of the rear has to be written in two lines. The first line has to have the State code and the registered authority code while all others are to be written in the bottom line, Mr. Khuntia pointed out.

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