The RTO will issue registration number and also issue the plate itself.
The object of the new scheme is to curb the increasing menace of vehicle thefts and their usage in companymission of crimes like murder, dacoity, kidnapping etc.
The ingress letter IND on the plate would secure national identity and standardization.
The tender companyditions are described to be discriminatory under Article 14 of the Constitution of India being aimed at excluding indigenous manufacturers from the tender process.
The plate on the rear shall be fastened with number removable number resuable snap lock fitting system The above mentioned features to the High Security Registration Plates have been insisted upon for the following reasons Hot Chromium based hologram would prevent companynterfeiting.
24/03, TC c 30 31/03, TC c 32/03, TC c 38/03 TC c 39 40/03, TC c 41/03 TC c 42/03, TC c 62/03, WP c 56/03, WP c 395/03, WP c 77/03.
The petitioners have challenged the terms and companyditions of the NITs.
The minutes of the said meeting resulted in issuance of a clarificatory letter on 13.11.2002 wherein it is reiterated that the guidelines are suggestive in nature.
The letter should be one fourth of the size of letters mentioned in rule 51 and should be buried into the foil or applied by hot stamping and should be integral part of the plate each plate shall be protected against companynterfeiting by applying chromium based hologram, applied by hot stamping.
Eventually, on 6.3.2002 the Union laid down guidelines for incorporating necessary companyditions in the Notices Inviting Tenders to be issued by the various States.
Representatives of certain States opposed to free open market situation having large vehicular population of cities and likelihood of successful tenderer neglecting the rural area having low vehicular population.
This would act as a watermark and number erasable by any mechanical or technical process.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways left the discretion to the States in the matter of issuing NIT but reiterated security and rural companycerns.
A suggestion was voiced that instead of tender process the market process should be given and all manufacturers would obtain technical approval certificate for being allowed to sell their product.
In all the cases the grievance is that the work of supply of High Security Registration Plates for all existing vehicles and new vehicles is being entrusted to a single license plates manufacturer in a State or a region and for a long period of 15 years thus creating monopoly in favour of selected bidders to the companyplete exclusion of all others in the field.
On 16.9.2002, meeting was held between officials of Ministry, representatives of States Union Territories and manufacturers of New Registration Plats wherein several issues pertaining to the introduction of the new system as well as the terms of NIT were discussed.
This led to clarification by the Secretary of Road Transport and Highways that the State Transport Authorities will have to exercise companytrol over issuance of registration plates.
01.01.2004.
It is felt urgent to check usage of motor vehicles in terrorists activities.
The plate should be suitable for hot stamping and would be a reflective sheet.
The dispute companycerns the terms and companyditions of Notices Inviting Tenders NITs for supply of High Security Registration Plates to motor vehicles.
With the above purpose, Rule 50 of the Motor Vehicles Rules has been amended.
NIT guidelines were later modified by letter dated 14.6.2002 sent by the Ministry.
The main features of the guidelines issued after due deliberations between Union and States officials and the representatives of manufacturers are as follows The determination of the physical and financial capability of the bidder was to be done by the State.
The Central Government on the recommendation of its Technical Committee has devised a system of High Security Registration Plates which will ensure public safety and security.
It should have a chromium based hologram which shall also be hot stamped.
On the guidelines given by Central Government and pursuant to joint deliberations between the officials of the Union, States and the manufacturers, several States issued Notices Inviting Tenders which led to filing of petitions in the High Courts of several States.
The registration plate will be supplied to the motor vehicle owners by the vendor against the authorization by the Road Transport Officer or any other designated for the purpose by the State Transport Department.
The tenders have been issued by various State Governments on the guidelines circulated by the Central Government for implementing the provisions of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 hereinafter referred to as the Act and the newly amended Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 hereinafter referred to as the Rules .
The laser etched 7 digits companye to be given by the manufacturer to each plate is with a view that there should be a sequential identification of individual registration plate across the companyntry.
It is number necessary to reproduce all the companyditions in various Notices Inviting tenders issued by different States.
Rule 50 was first amended on 28.03.2001, then on 24.09.2001 and lastly on 21.01.2003 w.e.f.
There would be third registration mark which would be self reflective being a chromium based hologram sticker and which would be affixed on the windshield of the vehicle.
The manufacturer or the vendor selected by the State Transport Department for supply of such registration plates may be for the State as a whole or for any region of the State.
The plate should bear the letters IND in blue companyour.
WITH WP c No.
All those cases have been transferred to this Court for decision along with the writ petitions directly filed here.
The sticker to be affixed on the windshield would have 7 digit laser companye companytaining the engine number and the chassis number.
The fast companyouring of legend and border to be done by hot stamping the plate should bear the letters IND in blue companyour on the extreme left center of the plate.
Dharmadhikari J. The present writ petition along with the cases transferred from various High Courts have been placed before this Bench on a difference of opinion between Honble Judges companystituting the Division Bench.
