BH-Series

Subject – Governance

Context – ‘BH’ vehicle registration series notified.

Concept –

To ensure seamless transfer of personal vehicles across States, the Road Transport Ministry has come up with Bharat Series (BH-series), a new registration mark for new vehicles.
It is new vehicle registration regime that will avoid vehicle owners from re-registration process when they shift from one State/Union Territory to another.
This vehicle registration facility will be available on voluntary basis to defense personnel, employees of central government/ State government/ central/ State public sector undertakings and private sector companies/ organizations, which have their offices in four or more states/union territories.
An IT-based solution for vehicle registration is one such effort as “one of the pain points in the vehicle registration process that needed attention was re-registration of a vehicle while moving to another State”.
Earlier, under section 47 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, a person is allowed to keep the vehicle for not more than 12 months in any state other than the state where the vehicle is registered.