India license plate: Transport HSRP

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

India license plate, Transport HSRP (2004 to today), sample KA 05 CD 6789

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99 LL 9999, for example KA 05 CD 6789 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Same decode as every Indian plate: State code, office, series, number. Yellow still means a transport vehicle, the HSRP specification itself is colour-blind.

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 truck, bus, van, car, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD200
Size
340 × 200 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE CURRENT TRANSPORT PLATE. The HSRP specification is colour-blind: rule 50(1) prescribes the plate, rule 50(2)(d) prescribes the colour, and a yellow HSRP is the ordinary sight on an Indian goods carriage or taxi today.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org 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...

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is in-transport-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-transport-hsrp-2004")'