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India license plate: Standard HSRP

Issued today 2004 to today. Standard plates for car, van, motorcycle, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India. One of 16 India license plates.

India license plate, Standard HSRP (2004 to today), sample MH 12 AB 1234
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99 LL 9999, for example MH 12 AB 1234 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The mark decodes exactly as its 1989 ancestor, State, office, series, number. HSRP changed the plate, never the mark: the hologram, laser code and IND legend authenticate; they add no meaning to the characters.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2004 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, motorcycle, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 200 mm · every country's size
  • India license plate, Standard HSRP 500×120 mm (2004 to today)

    Standard HSRP 500×120 mm

    standard · 500 × 120 mm

  • India license plate, Standard HSRP 200×100 mm (2004 to today)

    Standard HSRP 200×100 mm

    standard · 200 × 100 mm

  • India license plate, Standard HSRP 285×45 mm (2004 to today)

    Standard HSRP 285×45 mm

    standard · 285 × 45 mm

About this plate
The 1 April 2019 date is real but is a DIFFERENT claim: it is when the HSRP Order 2018 moved the duty onto vehicle manufacturers and their dealers for new vehicles, which is when the plates finally appeared nationwide. Both are recorded; the period claim is the rule's.

Legal basis and sources

  1. rule 50(1)(i)-(vi) HSRP specification; footnote 74: sub-rule (1) 'substituted by G.S.R. 221(E), dated 28-3-2001 as amended by S.O. 938(E), dated 24-9-2001, S.O. 499(E), dated 9-5-2002 and S.O. 59(E), dated 21-1-2003... https://web.archive.org/web/20211130113450id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/CMVR-chapter3.pdf
  2. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20210514202317id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/notifications_document/Notific...
  3. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20230429221406id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/notifications_document/8GSR%20...

Before and after

India license plate, Standard (1989 to 2003) It replaced Standard 1989 to 2003

This plate in your app

The series id is in-standard-hsrp-2004. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of India's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/in \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "in-standard-hsrp-2004")'
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