Ordinary registration number plates would be used in new vehicles after the cancellation of the contract of link Utsav Pvt ltd company for installing high security registration number plates, an official of the Transport department said on Friday.
He further informed that out of around 1.5 lakh vehicle, the high-security number plates were provided to only 25,000 vehicle owners till the month of October across the State and in the city around 25,000 vehicles were sold and 1500 vehicles were provided with high security registration number plates.
The remaining vehicle owners would be relieved after the decision to install normal number came.
Several concerns were raised after the gross irregularities were witnessed in the installation work of high security registration number plates by the company after which notices were issued but the company never paid heed to the warnings.
The system would be revived soon and the normal registration plate number would replace the high security registration number plates till the selection of the new vendor for installing high security registration number plates which would take around 3-4 months.
Other concern was of penalties imposed by traffic police and to address the problem traffic police have been informed regarding the problems in installing high security registration number plates by the linlk Utsav Pvt ltd Company and the vehicles without high security registration number plates would not be fined.
The company had pendency by 15000 high security registration number plates till August 13.
Company has been paid Rs 3.25 crore from the year 2012 till date for installing around 2 lakh high security registration number plates.