Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2020-12-14

Designing of the Vehicle Number Plate Issuance Process in a way that is convenient for clients by removing the provincial letter

- In the process of vehicle registration, Provincial identification letters are added to vehicle number plates, thereby making ease the process of the vehicular emission test and in the issuance of annual revenue licenses. However, both the customers as well as the Department of Motor Traffic have encountered many difficulties since the number plates have to be changed at each instance the right of ownership of the vehicles are transferred between provinces. Since a unique number is issued to each registered vehicle at the time of registration, the identity of each vehicle can be easily recognized via the departmental data base. Considering those facts, the proposal made by the Minister of Transport to remove the provincial letters at time of issuance of vehicle number plates, was approved by the Cabinet.