In the ongoing festive season, there has been rise in sale of vehicles including four wheelers, two wheeler vehicles and commercial vehicles in the State capital.
Dehradun Regional Transport Office has issued around 3200 vehicle registration number plates between October 5 and October 21, 2013. This number is almost twice the number of registration number plates issued in the first 15 days of last month, said Dehradun Assistant Regional Transport Officer (administration) Sandeep Saini while talking to The Pioneer on Tuesday.
After issuing these registration number plates, the department had earned evenue of around Rs three crore in the form of tax in the last fifteen days. Applicants were charged four per cent motor vehicle tax on purchase cost of vehicle upto Rs 10 lakh while five percent tax was charged on vehicle's cost amounting to more than Rs 10 lakh.
Traditionally, during festive season, there is rise in sale of vehicles in the district. The department has issued as many as 3258 registration number plates which included 1050 number plates for motorcycles, 1430 for scooters, 624 for cars and 154 for commercial vehicles in the last 25 days.
Saini further said that department had imposed as many as 4244 challans onviolators between April and September in the last year while 723 challans were imposed in the same period this year.
The department had earned revenue of Rs 96 lakh in the form of penalty in the last year while this year Rs 82 lakh was earned. From May 2, 2013, online taxation of commercial vehicle tax has been operational in the district. Entry Cess has also been paid online.
According to him, the department had issued around five lakh vehicles’ registration plate numbers since 2000 which included around 16, 178 vehicles registration number plates in the year 2000 followed by 17, 205 in 2001, 19, 205 in 2002, 21, 798 in 2003, 24, 314 in 2004, 27, 543 in 2005, 29, 136 in 2006, 31, 997 in 2007, 31, 182 in 2008, 33, 578 in 2009, 33, 578 in 2010, 46889 in 2010-11, 56, 121 in 2011-12.
A team comprised five enforcement constables are deployed for conducting verification of documents and other necessary documents on road users and penalty or challan is being imposed on violators in traffic violations.The Government has recently approved one more enforcement team for Dehradun and they would soon join in department, he added.