High-security number plates have been made mandatory for all types of vehicles in the State. The Gurugram police said that the State Government has made it mandatory for all vehicle owners to install high-security number plates.

Those found violating the norms will be prosecuted by the traffic police. The offenders have to pay Rs 500 for the time as fine and the second time amount will be doubled.

The traffic police have issued 15,393 challans against vehicles owners for  driving without high-security number plates in the previous year and around 2,195 till now in the current year.

The Traffic official said that the high-security number plate system would cut down on vehicle theft cases in the district.

 "The high-security number plates cannot be exchanged and if anyone tries to remove the number plate from the vehicle it will break. The high-security number plate is equipped with a special type of chip that gets all the information related to the vehicle owner as soon as it is scanned. The number plate is mandatory for all types of vehicles in Gurugram,”said Subhash Boken, the spokesperson of the Gurugram Police.

Apart from this, it has radium shining at night, which makes the number caught in the camera even at night. In this way, information about the owner of the vehicle is obtained in an emergency.

On the other hand, administration officials revealed that the procedure for getting the high-security number plates would be the same. After paying the vehicle registration fee, the applicant will get a receipt from an authorised vehicle dealer.

Finally, after showing the receipt, a high-security number plate would be issued to the concerned applicant. For commercial vehicles, the applicant would get a receipt from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) and non-commercial a receipt would get a receipt from E-Disha centres.

"The charges of the number, plate would be depending on a type of vehicles. It is mandatory for the residents they should install high-security number plate’s vehicles whether they have old or new vehicles", an official, said.