Govt introduces new registration mark under BH-series for new vehicles

The Government introduced a new registration mark for new vehicles under the “Bharat series (BH-series)” to facilitate seamless transfer of vehicles, informed the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways on Saturday. “Government has taken a host of citizen-centric steps to facilitate mobility. An IT-based solution for vehicle registration is one such effort. However, one of the pain points in the vehicle registration process that needed attention was re-registration of a vehicle while moving to another state,” said the Ministry in a statement. Station relocation occurs with both Government and private sector employees. Such movements create a sense of unease in the minds of such employees with regard to the transfer of registration from the parent state to another state as, under section 47 of the vehicles-act”>Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, a person is allowed to keep the vehicle for not more than 12 months in any state other than the state where the vehicle is registered, but a new registration with the new state- registering authority has to be made within the stipulated time of 12 months. A passenger vehicle user takes steps to re-register a vehicle including no objection certificate from the Parent State for assignment of a new registration mark in another state; Assignment of new registration mark after the road tax on pro-rata basis is paid in the new State and Application for refund of the road tax in the parent State on pro-rata basis. This provision to get a refund from the parent State on a pro-rata basis is a very cumbersome process and varies from one State to another.