Murugan BHPian

Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Chennai Posts: 373 Thanked: 223 Times

Numerology - Vehicle registration numbers totalling to eight banned in Tamilnadu RTO Recently a friend went to an RTO office in Chennai to choose a number for his new car. He did not want the sum total of the last four digits of the registration number to add up to eight as he has this superstitious belief that '8' is an unlucky number for him. He was informed by the personnel at the RTO that he did not have to bother about it is as the RTO/ Government has banned the issuing of such numbers! Apparently when a new series of vehicle registration numbers is ready to be released one of the first things that is done is to block these numbers totalling to eight. These numbers will not be issued to state transport buses or other government vehicles also. Friends in Salem and Vellore said it is the same in their towns too.



I find this really weird. Should our government promote such beliefs even indirectly? What is the situation in the rest of the country/ world? Last edited by Murugan : 15th May 2008 at 03:16 .