RAJYA
SABHA
High Security Registration
Plates are being introduced for new vehicles from January 1,
2004. Vehicles registered prior to January 1, 2004 will get
two years time to get these plates installed. There are about
five crore motor vehicles in the country. Selection of vendor/vendors
for High Security Registration Plates is to be made by a competitive
process. This is required to be done by the respective States/Union
Territories. The price of the High Security Registration Plates
in a State would be known only thereafter.
All prospective
vendors have to get their product type approved by one of the
testing agencies notified by the Government, none of which is
under the administrative control of this Ministry. Thereafter,
it is up to the concerned State Government to select a vendor/vendors
from amongst those who have obtained the type approval. Following
vendors have obtained type approval certificate so far :-
1. M/s Shimnit
Utsch India Pvt. Ltd.
- M/s Utsav Safety System (P)
Ltd.
- M/s Real Industries India
Ltd.
- M/s Eastern (Steel & Saws)
Industries Pvt. Ltd.
- M/s Promuk Hoffmann International
Limited
- M/s Omish Traders
- M/s Metro Wilhem Grewe Ltd.
- M/s Automark Technologies
India Pvt. Ltd.
This information
was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Road Transport and Highways, Maj. Gen. (Retd.) B.C. Khanduri
in a written reply to a question of Shri Nilotpal Basu in Rajya
Sabha today.
