KATHMANDU: The government will distribute the embossed vehicle registration plates after the Supreme Court publishes the full text of the verdict.
The SC had on December 13 vacated a stay order it issued on February 22, 2018, that paved the government to re-start the printing and distribution of embossed number plates.
According to the Director-General Department of Transport Management (DOTM), Gogan Bahadur Hamal, the department will start the process of distribution of the plates.
It should be recalled that the SC had issued a stay on the printing and distribution of the embossed number plates in 2018 after advocates Rajan Burlakoti and Bharat Kumar Basnet had filed a writ petition arguing that the number plates have to be printed in Nepali, not in English.
The department has 17 months to complete the job of printing before the contract with a Bangladesh firm expires.
The firm needs to print 2.5 million number plates by May 30, 2021. It has printed only 5,000 plates so far.
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