Hyderabad. It has often been seen among people who drive expensive cars that while registering their new vehicle, they choose a different or special number plate. To do this they sometimes have to spend extra money. A case has come to light in Hyderabad where a young man spent not just one, two or five lakh but a huge amount of Rs 25 lakh to get the registration number of his choice. This information was given by the officials of Telangana State Road Transport Authority on Tuesday. It was told that the department has made a lot of profit due to the youth’s use of fancy number plate. This young man has now got the ‘9999’ registration number of his choice.
The department did not tell which car the young man owned. Hyderabad Joint Transport Commissioner C. Ramesh said the highest bid in the online auction of fancy registration numbers was for ‘9999’, with the car owner paying Rs 25,50,002 to the department for the number ‘TG-09 9999’. Paid. 11 people participated in the auction of the unique number ‘9999’ held on Monday and this number was sold for Rs 25.5 lakh. “This is the highest bid amount ever for a unique number, which is a record in Telangana,” the official told PTI.
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The official said anyone interested in the unique number can reserve it by paying Rs 50,000 and can participate in the bidding if there are more bidders. The Khairatabad Road Transport Authority (RTA) office earned over Rs 43 lakh during the auction of other unique numbers on Monday. The Congress government of Telangana had changed the vehicle registration code to TG in March this year.
(With PTI inputs)
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FIRST PUBLISHED: May 21, 2024, 21:21 IST