Government formalises registration process of vintage motor vehicles, says Union Minister Nitin Gadkari

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said his ministry has formalised the registration process of vintage motor vehicles in India for promoting and preserving the heritage of such vehiclesThe Centre in November last year had said it intends to formalise the registration process of the vintage motor vehicles and had sought public comments for proposed rules regarding thisWith an aim to preserve and promote the heritage of vintage vehicles the MoRTH has formalised the registration process of vintage motor vehicles in India Gadkari said in a series of tweetsWith no existing rules for regulating the process of registration across different states he said the new rules shall provide a hasslefree process along with salient features such as retention of old number for alreadyregistered vehicles and a VA series unique registration mark for fresh registrationsThe Ministry of Road Transport and Highways MoRTH had invited public comments for proposed rules on registering vintage vehiclesThe draft rules define vintage motor vehicles as all those vehicles that are twowheelers and fourwheelers noncommercial and personal use and are more than50 years old from the date of their first registration including imported vehicleAlso read Toll booths to go in a year Nitin GadkariThere is a restriction in the definition no substantial overhaul of the vehicles that includes modification in chassis or body shell andor engineA vintage motor vehicle is allowed to run on Indian roads only for display technical research or taking part in a vintage car rally refuelling and maintenance exhibitions vintage rallies and to and fro to such exhibition or car rallyAccording to a Road Transport and Highways Ministry statement application for registrationreregistration shall be made as per Form 20 and shall be accompanied by an insurance policy fee bill of entry in case of imported vehicles and old RC in case of an already registered vehicle in IndiaIt further said that the State Registering Authority shall issue a certificate of registration as per Form 23A within 60 daysAccording to the statement vehicles already registered can retain their original Registration MarkHowever for fresh registration registration mark will be assigned as XX VA YY where VA stands for vintage XX stands for State Code YY will be a twoletter series and 8 is a number from 0001 to 9999 allotted by the State Registering Authority it saidThe statement said fees for a new registration will Rs 20000 and Rs 5000 for subsequent reregistration The government had said the objective is to preserve and promote the heritage of old vehicles in IndiaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever