The Telangana State Transport department has begun registering new motor vehicles with a new ‘TG’ code instead of the previous ‘TS’ prefix. The officials have started issuing registration numbers for vehicles.
Transport Commissioner Dr Jyoti Buddha Prakash launched the TG series at Khairatabad RTA office. The first number, TS 09 0001, was issued in the central zone of Hyderabad. Vehicle-owner Rudraraju Rajeev Kumar was happy to receive this number through auction.
On March 12, the Centre allowed the State government to use the TG code for vehicle registrations. The registration of new vehicles has started in various districts, with many people awaiting registration since March 12.
Unique number series have been allotted to different districts for vehicle registration. Hyderabad will have six different series based on zones, while other districts will have one or two series each. The total number of vehicles in the State is 1,63,51,155, with 70,68,252 registered under AP series and 92,82,903 under TS series.
Dr Prakash mentioned that the transition from TS to TG was completed as per government orders. On the first day of registration, the Khairatabad RTA earned Rs 30.49 lakh through auctioning fancy registration numbers.
Various registration numbers were auctioned, with TG 09 0001 being sold for Rs 9.61 lakh as the highest bid. The second and third highest bids were for TG 09 0909 (Rs 2.3 lakh) and TG 09 0005 (Rs 2.21 lakh) respectively.
The decision to change the State’s abbreviation from ‘TS’ to ‘TG’ was made on February 4 in a Cabinet meeting chaired by CM A Revanth Reddy. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued a gazette notification on March 12 following a request by the CM to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on February 20.
The registering authority codes for different areas have been designated, with specific codes for Greater Hyderabad Ranga Reddy (TG-07), Medchal-Malkajgiri (TG-08), and Hyderabad (TG-09,10,11,12,13,14). Police department vehicles under 09 will have registration numbers starting with ‘P’.
Additionally, certain series starting with T, U, V, W, X, and Y will be used for transport vehicles like tractors-trailers. All series beginning with ‘Z’ will be allocated to RTC vehicles.
