‘Embossed number plate installation not compulsory, it is only intensified’

June 8, Kathmandu: The Department of Transport Management has clarified that the installation of an embossed number plate in all vehicles from the beginning of the new fiscal year was not made mandatory.

The installation of high-security embossed number plate was instead intensified, according to the Department’s spokesperson Ishworidutta Paneru.

Department’s notice issued two days ago on the installation of embossed number plate which contains details about the vehicle owner as well the status of the payment of revenue had courted controversies among the public and in the social media. Spokesperson Paneru said that the Department did not mean that the citizens must affix the number plate in their vehicles compulsorily beginning from 17 July this year.

The notice released recently was complementary to the statement issued on November 8, 2021, he shared. ‘It is our responsibility to implement decisions made in the past.” Furthermore, he admitted that there was no way over 2.5 million vehicles registered in Nepal could fix the embossed number plate within coming 40 days.