Delhi is planning to release a VIP car registration number series for vehicles to be used by Commonwealth Games delegates.
This will help police and traffic cops to easily identify them, transport officials said.
The series is likely to start with the letters CWG, abbreviation used globally for the sporting event, followed by numbers, said a senior transport official.
The series will be exclusive to at least 2,000 vehicles which the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee plans to buy, the official added.
"Chief minister Sheila Dikshit proposed the idea so that we could mark the vehicles for easy identification. This way they will be offered priority services when security curbs are in place during the event," a senior officer said.
Transport officials said the department has asked the road and surface transport ministry to allow issuing a special registration number series which is permitted under the Motor Vehicles Act.
"The legislation is quite strict about maintaining continuity of registration number series. But Section 46 of the law allows exceptions in special cases," said a senior transport department official.
Another official said the department has already written to the ministry's joint secretary S. Dash for approval to the special series urgently.
A senior officer said some kind of identification for Games vehicles was required as heavy curbs would be under way for the general traffic during the event.
In the meantime, organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi wants a heavy discount at the cost of Delhi's exchequer to buy the cars for delegates.
The organisers will get at least 2,000 brand new cars free of cost from sponsors for transporting delegates, a transport department officer said. But the sponsors will have to pay a value- added tax and registration fees on every car they buy.
Kalmadi wants the Delhi government to waive off nearly Rs 38 crore in such taxes and duties, said a senior finance official.
The tax holiday Kalmadi wants would dent the state exchequer that the government claims has already dried up in preparing for the Games. "Kalmadi has submitted a memorandum. The organisers have regularly sought such waivers, claiming it's our responsibility as the host state. We are fed up,"said an official.
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This will help police and traffic cops to easily identify them, transport officials said.
The series is likely to start with the letters CWG, abbreviation used globally for the sporting event, followed by numbers, said a senior transport official.
The series will be exclusive to at least 2,000 vehicles which the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee plans to buy, the official added.
"Chief minister Sheila Dikshit proposed the idea so that we could mark the vehicles for easy identification. This way they will be offered priority services when security curbs are in place during the event," a senior officer said.
Transport officials said the department has asked the road and surface transport ministry to allow issuing a special registration number series which is permitted under the Motor Vehicles Act.
"The legislation is quite strict about maintaining continuity of registration number series. But Section 46 of the law allows exceptions in special cases," said a senior transport department official.
Another official said the department has already written to the ministry's joint secretary S. Dash for approval to the special series urgently.
A senior officer said some kind of identification for Games vehicles was required as heavy curbs would be under way for the general traffic during the event.
In the meantime, organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi wants a heavy discount at the cost of Delhi's exchequer to buy the cars for delegates.
The organisers will get at least 2,000 brand new cars free of cost from sponsors for transporting delegates, a transport department officer said. But the sponsors will have to pay a value- added tax and registration fees on every car they buy.
Kalmadi wants the Delhi government to waive off nearly Rs 38 crore in such taxes and duties, said a senior finance official.
The tax holiday Kalmadi wants would dent the state exchequer that the government claims has already dried up in preparing for the Games. "Kalmadi has submitted a memorandum. The organisers have regularly sought such waivers, claiming it's our responsibility as the host state. We are fed up,"said an official.
Source http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/99058/Sports/Games+cars+to+have+special+number+plates.html
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