Embossed number plate can now be written in both English and Nepali
KATHMANDU, April 5: The government has made necessary arrangements for the embossed number plates attached to vehicles to be written in Nepali language as well.
KATHMANDU: A small number of vehicles having embossed registration plates on a daily basis has indicated a failure to meet the deadline to install embossed number plates on all vehicles in the country. Only less than two percent of vehicles have got the embossed registration plates so far when it remains 11 months to expire […]
“Embossed number plate will be installed on vehicles, and Smart Card will replace the existing driving license” was one of the policies under the Three-Year Interim Plan (2007/08-2009/10) introduced by the National Planning Commission. It was eight years later that the Department of Transport Management (DoTM), in 2015, called a tender to craft and distribute embossed number plates. It was awarded to Decatur-Tiger IT, a Bangladeshi company, on May 30, 2016, at $44 million. As per the contract, 2.5 million vehicles were to be equipped with embossed number plates by mid-September, 2021. The deadline was extended by two years and four months until mid-November, 2023.
