Hyderabad: Vehicle registrations to become easy now

Hyderabad: New vehicle registrations will become easy for buyers. The government is said to be implementing new registrations for non-transport vehicles at the dealer showrooms in August, in order to make sure that new vehicles are not delivered without registration numbers for safety reasons.

The pilot project will be first implemented in the city and will be expanded to the rest of the state. The registration numbers will be allotted online automatically, with the Road Transport Authority monitoring the process. However, fancy numbers are allotted at RTA, said an official at transport department.

New vehicle registrations of non-transport at showrooms has been successfully implemented in some places, including Delhi, Gujarat, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, and Haryana. New vehicles do not need any inspection, and the customer data will be uploaded from the dealer showrooms itself, the official said.

The customers could avoid the hassles of running around regional transport offices in the new process. At present, customers pay all the taxes and the registration fee at the dealer showroom, when they buy vehicles. They pay ' 635 toward registration fee, another '635 for the temporary registration fee and '200 for the service charges. The customers also pay the lifetime tax, which is around 12 per cent of the vehicle cost, to the dealers, and then they will have 30 days to get a new permanent registration. The process could be cumbersome.The dealers already have the mechanism to pay transport department and issue temporary registrations. “We have to pay the lifetime tax through online banking to the RTA, before we could issue temporary registration numbers to our customers,” said B Satish Kumar, a dealer at Jubilee Hills. They will have to upload information related to the customers. There are concerns that the dealers may demand high charges.