Decode a vehicle registration number

Bharat Series (BH) is a newer registration format, introduced for vehicles owned by people with transferable jobs across states — defence personnel, central government employees, and employees of companies with offices in 4+ states/UTs. A BH-series plate isn't tied to a single state's RTO, so it doesn't need re-registration when the owner relocates. Format: YY BH #### XX — registration year, then BH, then a 4-digit number, then 1–2 series letters.

A vehicle number plate encodes the state, RTO and a series number — all public, structural information. It does not encode the owner's identity. Looking up the actual registered owner requires the government's own Parivahan/VAHAN portal, which gates that information behind OTP verification for privacy reasons.

This vehicle number plate decoder identifies the state, RTO office, and registration series from any Indian vehicle registration number, including the newer BH-series (Bharat Series) portable registration format. Use it to decode a number plate, understand vehicle registration number format, check which RTO issued a registration, or verify BH-series eligibility and structure.