Vehicle registration plates of India

India
	High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) for a private LMV
Country	India
Country code	IND
Current series
Name	HSRP
Size	34 cm x 20 cm; Medium & Heavy Commercial Vehicles (MCV, HCV); 50 cm x 12 cm; Light Motor Vehicle (LMV); 20 cm x 10 cm; Two-wheeler (Rear); Tractor (Rear); Three-wheeler; 28.5 cm x 4.5 cm; Two-wheeler (Front); Tractor (Front);
Material	Aluminium with Chromium hologram
Serial format	Refer section Private and Commercial Vehicles Special formats:; VA (Vintage) series; BH (Bharat) series;
Front plate	Mandatory
Rear plate	Mandatory
Colour (front)	Refer section Colour coding
Colour (rear)	Refer section Colour coding
Introduced	2005 (19 years ago)
Designer	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Availability
Issued by	Regional Transport Office of relevant district
Manufactured by	Vendors authorised by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
History
First issued	August 1947 (77 years ago)
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All motorised vehicles plying on public roads in India are tagged with a registration or licence number. The vehicle registration plate (known colloquially as number plate) is issued by a Regional Transport Office (RTO), the district-level authority on vehicular matters in the respective state or Union Territory. The number plates are mandatory on both front and rear of the vehicle and are required to be in modern Hindu-Arabic numerals with latin letters.^[1] Complete specification of registration plates are specified under the HSRP: High Security Registration Plate rules.

The international vehicle registration code for India is IND.

^ "Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989, Rule-50(2)(d)" (PDF). Government of India - Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. 1989. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[numplateseng-1] "Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989, Rule-50(2)(d)" (PDF). Government of India - Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. 1989. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

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