From Nov 1, get your vehicles registered at auto dealers' end

Sahil Rasgotra. Updated: 10/17/2017 1:06:09 AM Front Page

JAMMU: Bringing in line with other states of the country its vehicle registration system, the state government has made it mandatory from next month to register the non-commercial vehicles through authorised automobile dealers only, one of the major reform in the transport department as emphasized by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, three days ago.
A long-pending reform, the decision can be seen as a step towards decentralising the digitization of registration data and eliminating cash handling at RTO cash counter that makes the registration process more simplified and fast, also eliminating the middlemen who make a good fortune out of customers' pockets for a process as straight as this.
As per the official order, the government has paved way for dealers to become the last stop for submission of vehicles' documents, besides the mandatory fee and taxes, who will in turn make the online payments on the Vahan portal- central transport ministry's official website.
This move which will come in force from November 1st, makes Jammu and Kashmir the last state in North India to have the registration process set up at dealers' end.
From next month onwards, the RTO doors would be shut for private applicants as the government has directed that no registering authority would entertain any file for new non-commercial vehicle manually or fee in cash or draft from November 1.
The system has been in force pan India, implemented at different points of time in past three years, as the union government's attempt to eliminate the discrepancies plaguing the entire process.
However, in Jammu and Kashmir, the vehicle owners were either left to the mercy of 'agents' who run a mafia of sorts across the state or had to run from post to pillar in the RTO offices of their respective districts which were epitome of archaic procedural tangles.
All that is about to change now, though.
After the dealers make online payment after receiving it from the vehicle buyer, will prepare the file containing the application vide form 20, sale letter vide form 21, form 22, the invoice of vehicle, the temporary registration number, Pan card, address proof and insurance letter and submit the same in concerned RTO office for approval and generation of registration number.
The government has also directed that no temporary numbers will be issued by registering authorities to dealers henceforth.
Those already issued will be used up to 30 November, thus ensuring that temporary numbers would be generated by dealers only through Vahan portal from 1st December.

Updated On 10/17/2017 1:12:25 AM


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