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India license plate: Temporary

Issued today 2021 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India. One of 16 India license plates.

India license plate, Temporary (2021 to today), sample T 0825 KA 1234 AB
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Format, years and the law

Format
T 9999 LL 9999 LL, for example T 0825 KA 1234 AB (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Self-dating: after the T for temporary certificate come four digits that are the month and year of issue, then the State code, a serial, and two letters that skip O and I. Expiry pressure, readable straight off the plate.

T
Temporary certificate (temporary registration)

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

Years issued
2021 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
THE STANDARDISED TEMPORARY MARK, and the reason it is dated 2021 rather than 1989: temporary registration has existed since the Act (§ 43), but until rule 53C was inserted its mark had NO nationally prescribed shape and every State invented one. G.S.R. 240(E) gave it a form for the first time.
How the region is encoded
State code only, rule 53C's legend has no RTO district element, which is consistent with a temporary mark being valid for movement rather than tied to an office. The decode returns a State and must not attempt a district.
How numbers are issued
The month and year of ISSUE are in the mark, which makes the Indian temporary plate self-dating and its expiry mechanically checkable: rule 53B gives an initial validity extendable "one or more times by 30 days each".

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20210421181546id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/notifications_document/GSR%202...
  2. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20250804185944id_/https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1798/1/aA1988-59.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is in-temporary-2021. 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-temporary-2021")'
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