New 'BH' Bharat Number Series for Vehicles

In news- The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways recently announced a new Number Series called Bharat Series marked by ‘BH’ in order to facilitate seamless transfer of vehicles.

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A BH number series is for vehicle registration across India specifically meant for those vehicle owners who shift from one state to another on a regular basis due to their transferable nature of job.
The BH signifies Bharat and will replace the state letters in the number plate denoting the state of vehicle registration, like UP or DL.
These number plates will have white background with black numbers.
The government by amending Rule 47 of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989, has mandated that vehicles bearing the BH registration mark will not require to be re-registered in a new state once it relocates.
Anyone who is a government/PSU employee, state or Centre, is eligible.
In the private sector, an employee of a company that has offices in at least four states/UTs is eligible to get the BH number on a voluntary basis.
The new number series plate will be in the format – >YY BH #### XX where, YY stands for Year of first registration, BH stands for code of Bharat Series, #### stands for the number from 0000 to 9999 (randomized) and XX stands for alphabets (AA to ZZ).
This new series will ease easy ownership transfer of used cars as well.
The new system of allotting BH series registration to vehicles will be completely online.
It will come into force from September 15, 2021.
One has to pay road tax in regular vehicles for 15 years, while for BH series, the road tax will be paid only for 2 years, after which, the owner can move to another state and pay applicable tax of the new state.
The road tax will be charged at 8 per cent if the cost of the vehicle is below Rs 10 lakh.
It is 10 per cent for those costing between Rs 10-20 lakh and for vehicles costing more than Rs 20 lakh, the tax is 12 per cent.
Diesel vehicles will be charged 2 per cent extra while Electric vehicles shall be charged 2 per cent less tax.