Sri Lanka to remove provincial letters from vehicle number plates
Posted by Editor on December 30, 2022 - 11:41 am
Provincial letters will be removed from vehicle number plates in Sri Lanka with effect from January 1, 2023.
Accordingly, provincial letters will be removed when a new vehicle is registered or transfer ownership of a vehicle.
The amendment to the vehicle number places was announced by the Commissioner General of Motor Traffic on Friday (December 30).
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It is meaningful to remove something meaningless. If the number plates are unique as they should be and held in an electronic database, there is no need to have a bit of information on the number plate. It serves nothing.