New vehicles in Telangana will now use ‘TG’ prefix

Hyderabad, March 13 : New vehicles in Telangana will now use TG prefix in registration numbers as the new Congress government has changed the states abbreviation.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a gazette notification in this regard.

The state government had last month decided to change the state’s abbreviation.

After formation of Telangana state in 2014, then TRS government had opted TS as the state abbreviation.

The Congress government said "the previous government did not follow any rule and rhyme and decided to go with TS as per its whims."

During the election campaign, Congress leader Revanth Reddy had announced that if his party is voted to power, it will change the abbreviation.

He had said: "TG was replaced by TS only to suit the TRS party.No other state in the country has state in the alphabet component in the vehicle registration number.

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Following the new gazette notification, the state will now have vehicles with three abbreviations.

While the new vehicles to be registered in the state will have TG prefix, the vehicles registered earlier with TS will retain the same prefix.

The state also has a large number of vehicles with abbreviation AP as Telangana was part of united Andhra Pradesh before becoming a separate state in 2014.

While opting for TS abbreviation earlier, the government did not make it compulsory for owners of AP vehicles to change the number plates.

Similarly, the present government has decided to apply TG prefix only for new vehicles.

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