{"id":234,"date":"2026-04-23T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:51:05","slug":"new-vehicle-number-plates-to-include-owners-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/23\/new-vehicle-number-plates-to-include-owners-name\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vehicle Number Plates to Include Owner\u2019s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Department of Motor Traffic has announced plans to introduce standardized vehicle registration number plates by the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>The update was revealed during a meeting of the Committee on Public Finance, where department officials stated that the new plates will be issued for newly registered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, authorities are planning to introduce a new system allowing vehicle number plates to include the owner\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Officials noted that this special initiative will be implemented once the department\u2019s computer system upgrade is completed, enabling more advanced and customized registration services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Department of Motor Traffic has announced plans to introduce standardized vehicle registration number plates by the end of May. The update was revealed during a meeting of the Committee on Public Finance, where department officials stated that the new plates will be issued for newly registered vehicles. In addition, authorities are planning to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}