In near future travel between Vijayawada and Hyderabad , or Vizag or even Tirupati will be as costly as travel to Chennai and Bangalore. ' It will be inter state travel costing more tax and permit raj ' say officials who are already exploring new TG registration for new vehicles of Telangana state.
In india we have a UK registration for vehicles registered in Uttarkhand. Similarly we will have TG registration for Telangana. Ahead of Telangana formation, new vehicles registrations in Hyderabad will genceforth carry the TG prefix instead of AP. Closely on the heels of process adopted by Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttaranchal governments in changing the vehicle registration number series AP Government .
While the existing code numbers for respective districts would remain same, the suffix series could be changed for the Telangana region. This is what Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttaranchal governments followed and the new State series was assigned as JH, CG and UA, respectively. The Uttaranchal government later changed the series to “UK” after the formation of Uttarakhand, says the official. According to transport department as of 2012, there about 1.18 crore vehicles registered in A.P.
Hence forth bus operators of Seemandhra will have to apply for inter state permits which cost Rs.1400 more per seat than the inter state permits