To facilitate seamless transfer of vehicles, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on August 28 notified that it has introduced a new registration mark for new vehicles, that is, Bharat series (BH-series). The Transport Ministry has stated that a vehicle with BH mark will not require a new registration mark if the owner shifts from one State to another.
The ministry also stated that the facility will be available on voluntary basis to Defense personnel. Employees of Central and State Government, and Central and State PSUs will also be able to avail this service. Along with these, private sector companies, which have their offices in 4 or more States or union territories.
A passenger vehicle user needs to follow these steps to register a vehicle:
Step 1: The vehicle owners will apply for a new plate at the origin RTO of the vehicle purchase and will provide the government issued ID to prove the employment.
Step 2: Owner will pay road tax for only 2 years or in multiple of two, like 4 years or 6 years depending on the length of their tenure in a state where the car is purchased.
Step 3: Earlier, a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the parent state for assigning a new registration mark in another state was needed. With new BH series, and no state involved, no NOC is needed and the owner can directly apply for re-registration in the new state.
Step 4: The tax of said state will now be applicable and owner can wait for the previous tenure to get over for new registration.
Step 5: However, if the new owner fails to renew the RC in said time frame, a fine will be applicable as per MV Act if Traffic Police ever catches the vehicles.
Step 6: A refund is also applicable if the owner wants to pay road tax of new state and still has time left from previous state. In that case, an application for a refund of the road tax in the parent state has to be filed.
Format of Bharat series (BH-series) Registration Mark is YY BH #### XX.
In this mark, YY stands for Year of first registration, BH means code for Bharat Series, while ####- is the number from 0000 to 9999 (randomized). As for XX, these are alphabets (AA to ZZ)
This scheme by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will facilitate the free movement of personal vehicles across States and UTs of India, if relocation happens. Station relocation occurs with both government and private sector employees. It was also learned that the motor vehicle tax shall be levied annually after the completion of the fourteenth year. The amount will be half of the total amount which was being charged earlier for that vehicle.
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