Mumbai: Greater than 20 million car homeowners in Maharashtra face a looming deadline to put in Excessive Safety Registration Plates (HSRP) on their automobiles registered earlier than April 2019, following a directive from the state’s Transport Division.
Heavy visitors on Sion – Panvel Freeway in Navi Mumbai. (BACHCHAN KUMAR/HT PHOTO)
The division issued an inner be aware on December 4, accompanied by Normal Working Procedures (SOPs), instructing Regional Transport Workplaces (RTOs) that every one automobiles should show these specialised plates by March 31, 2025.
RTO officers emphasise that car homeowners bear the accountability for putting in these subtle registration plates. Manufactured from aluminium alloy, the plates characteristic a retro-reflective movie with a verification inscription studying ‘India’, a chromium-based Ashok Chakra hologram, and a singular serial quantity. The mandate goals to cut back car theft, standardise car identification marks, and streamline RTO system entry.
The HSRP initiative, which started in April 2019, has been customary for all newly manufactured automobiles since its inception. “It also has a 10-digit unique number that is embossed with laser making it tamper proof. With the SOP issued, all those vehicles registered before April 2019 too need to have HSRP before the March 2025 deadline”, in response to transport officers.
In Mumbai alone, the place 4 RTOs function—Tardeo, Andheri, Wadala, and Borivali—roughly 4.8 million automobiles are registered. The set up prices have been set at ₹450 for two-wheelers and tractors, ₹500 for three-wheelers, and ₹745 for four-wheelers, together with vehicles, vans, buses, and different automobiles, with GST charged moreover.
After the March 2025 deadline expires, RTO enforcement authorities and Visitors Police may have the facility to take authorized motion and impose fines for non-compliance below Part 177 of the Motor Autos Act, 1988.