Moa Jamir
Dimapur | September 5
After witnessing over 44% decline in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vehicle registration in Nagaland has seen ‘healthy’ recovery in the first 8 months of 2021.
Data available on the national vehicle registry – VAHAN Dashboard, informed that the total vehicle registration in Nagaland till August 31 was 14,226 as against 9,625 during the same period last year.
It represented a 47.80% growth percentage wise, as per the data accessed on September 5.
Vehicle registration in Nagaland, however, has been on a downward trend since 2019 with registration declining from 33,932 in 2018 to 29,156 in 2019, signifying a negative growth rate of 14.08%.
With most of the economic activities in standstill from March 2020 due to COVID-19, registration of vehicles further witnessed a drastic decline from April, and reaching the lowest in July at just 10 registrations.
Thereafter, it embarked on a recovery path from August 2020 with the improvement in COVID-19 management to end 2020 with 16,196, down by over 44% from 2019.
The same momentum continued in the first four months of 2021 before the onset of the second wave of COVID-19 put a brake to the trend.
While the registrations witnessed huge volume till April, it fell to mere 405 in May and 355 in June.
However, in July, it jumped to 2,430, regaining the momentum and it is still continuing. (See Box).
Till September 5, a total of 3,66,260 vehicles are registered in Nagaland, according to the Dashboard.
Vehicle Registration in the State seems to be following the national trend which saw a -5.52% decline in 2019 at 2.15 crore and -23.68% in 2020 at 1.64 crore registration.
Till September 5, there were 1.09 crore registrations nationally, while the cumulative total was 27.50 crore.
VAHAN
According to the dashboard, there are 9 Vahans 4 running offices in Nagaland including the State Transport Authority (NL99) which joined the system on July 20, 2021.
Dimapur District Transport Office (DTO) – NL-7 was first to join the system in June 19, 2018 followed by Phek DTO (NL-8) in November 16, 2018 and Mon DTO (NL-8) on November 30, 2018.
So far, all DTOs in Nagaland are running with Vahan 4 except in Longleng, Kiphire, and Noklak.
The top 5 Regional Transport Office/DTOs in Nagaland are Kohima (151,267); Dimapur (103,376), Mokokchung (50,907); Phek (18,605); and Tuensang (17,135).
According to the MoRTH’s 2020 year-end review, VAHAN is a flagship application under the e-Transport Mission Mode Project, related to Vehicle Registration, Permit, Taxation, Fitness and allied processes.
Further, it is customized for each State’s requirements and currently implemented in 33 States / Union Territories across the country.
The latest version, VAHAN 4.0, launched on June 2, 2015, is a centralized, web enabled application, facilitating easy web-based access to all RTOs, Dealers, Citizens, Transporters and various other stakeholders. It is maintained by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways through National Informatics Centre (NIC).
VAHAN is currently implemented in more than 1300 RTOs, in the 33 states/ UTs of the country and more than 25,000 Vehicle Dealers and approximately 20,000 PUCC Centres are also connected to VAHAN 4.0, stated the year-end review issued on December 30.
