New vehicle registrations fell in Uttar Pradesh in last financial year

LUCKNOW: Registration of new two-wheelers (motorcycles and scooters) in Uttar Pradesh recorded a sharp decline by more than 35% and four-wheelers (cars) by around 11 % in the last financial year, a recent report prepared by the transport department shows.

However, the sale of new bikes and cars was least affected in many so-called poor and backward districts of eastern and Bundelkhand regions of the state. Some of these districts even registered a positive growth in the registration of new cars and the decline in new registration of automobiles there was only comparatively lower.

The report shows that against 29,06,104 two-wheelers registered in the state during 20192020, only 18,61,935 bikes and scooters were registered in 2020-21, the drop being 35.93%. The registration of cars was comparative better off at 2,59,412 in 2020-21 though it was less by 10.58% in comparison to the year 2019-2020 when 2,90,108 new four-wheelers were registered in the state. The sharpest fall in two-wheelers was recorded at 53.61% in the Sravasti district. Lucknow recorded 33.74% minus growth in registration of two-wheelers in 2020-21 vis-à-vis 2019-20. There were only 88,985 twowheelers registered in the district during the last financial year compared to 1,34,287 new bikes and scooters registered in 2019-20.

In the four-wheeler segment, Amethi recorded the sharpest fall at 29.05% followed by Gonda (28.85%) and Unnao (28.72%). The decrease in the number of registration of new cars in Lucknow was by 7.61%. A total 41,065 new cars were registered in Lucknow in 2020-21 against 44,449 new cars registered a year earlier.

Lalitpur, Hamirpur Balia, Banda, Mau, Devaria, Sant Kabir Nagar Gorakhpur, Ghazipur, Varanasi and Badaun were probably the only districts in the state to record a positive growth in the registration of new cars. The growth was highest at 7.23% in Badaun closely followed by 7.03% in Sant Kabir Nagar and 4.65% in Balia.

These are also districts where fall in registration of new vehicles is comparatively less than that registered by most affluent districts. However, there was not a single district to show a positive growth in registration of new two-wheelers in same year.