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The Tamil Nadu authorities has decided to manually renew the Registration Certificate and Fitness Certificates of 12,000 State-owned vehicles that are much than 15 years old. With the validity of the RC and FC of these vehicles acceptable to expire connected September 30, 2025, the authorities issued an bid authorising Regional Transport Officers to renew the certificates and judge interest manually.
The determination comes against the backdrop of the Centre’s notification that each government-owned vehicles which were much than 15 years aged should beryllium scrapped and their registration certificates would beryllium unilaterally cancelled by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways with effect from April 1, 2023, done Parivahan portal. The Union Government inserted Rule 52A successful the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, to enforce the guideline.
Following the notification, the renewal of the Registration Certificate of centrifugal vehicles owned by the State departments, State Transport Undertakings and different Public Sector Undertakings expired aft the lapse of 15 years from the day of archetypal registration of the vehicles.
On November 6, 2023, the State Government issued an bid extending the validity of registration of 15 years aged vehicles and 15-20 years aged vehicles whose Registration Certificate were cancelled successful Parivahan portal. The State Transport Commissioner issued an Executive Order permitting the RTOs to widen the validity of Registration Certificate of these vehicles upto September 30, 2024, and contented manual Fitness Certificate. They were besides allowed postulation of taxation for those vehicles manually.
The consequent twelvemonth also, the State extended the validity of 6,247 vehicles our of 14,611 vehicles belonging to the authorities and its undertakings, the Registration Certificate of which had either expired oregon owed to expire that year, by 1 much twelvemonth till September 30, 2025.
In an bid issued connected September 25, 2025, the authorities referred to a study of the Transport and Road Safety Commissioner which stated that the Registration Certificate of astir 12,000 vehicles owned by the State and its undertakings were owed to expire soon. Accepting the proposal of the Transport and Road Safety Commissioner, the authorities said that RTOs whitethorn beryllium permitted to widen the validity of Registration Certificates of 12,000 vehicles upto September 30, 2026, and authorise the transport officials to marque manual postulation of taxation and grant/renewal of Fitness Certificates accordingly.
