Karnal admn begins HSRP home delivery

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, February 3

Aiming to push people to get high-security registration plate (HSRP) installed on their vehicles, the district administration has started home delivery facility of HSRPs for those who have yet not affixed the plates on their vehicles.

The HSRP is booked at company points at the time of purchase of new vehicle, while for old vehicles, the owner has to go to the SDM concerned or RTA offices.

With this step, vehicle owners can book the plate on hsrphr.com portal. As per the officials, the number plates will be affixed within four to five days after the booking.

10K plates lying unclaimed

Due to the lethargic approach of vehicle owners, nearly 10,000 HSRPs are lying unclaimed at the office of the RTA and SDM offices concerned.

“We have started this facility for the people’s convenience as they don’t need to come to the registration office to get the HSRP booked,” said Veena Hooda, Additional Deputy Commissioner-cum-Secretary RTA.

“We have deployed two riders for Karnal city to get these plates affixed after the booking. People will not be charged for the home delivery of plates,” she added.

As per the orders of the Supreme Court and the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act-1988, the HSRP and colour-coded stickers are mandatory to be affixed on new and old vehicles. The vehicles found not having HSRP and colour-coded stickers will be challaned in compliance of the order of the Supreme Court, she said.

On the directions of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the district administration also started the process of affixing HSRP on vehicles in 2012. Due to lethargic approach of the vehicle owners, around 10,000 HSRP are lying unclaimed at the office of the RTA and SDM offices concerned .

The ADC said the chromium-based hologram plates had been made mandatory to check vehicle thefts. These get laser-stamping and can’t be copied or forged. “The data of these vehicles is available at VAHAN portal, through which we can easily know about the owner of the vehicles. It also helps in tracing the vehicles used in crime,” she said.