Another public university has announced the availability of a special number plate series – Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) is the latest institution to offer a unique plate, with its UUM series now open for bidding. Bids for the series, which will offer ‘UUM 1’ to ‘UUM 9999’ plates, will end on March 1.
Bids for ordinary numbers start from RM500, while that for popular numbers begin from RM1,000 to RM2,000. Premier numbers (1-10) start from RM30,000, although it looks like UUM 1 to 6 have been taken, with only four left on sale, these being 7 to 10.
The university is the fourth to announce the sale of special plates. In July last year, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) was reported to have successfully received approval to sell UMT plates, and last month tenders were announced for Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) series plates. All three sets offer plates from ‘1’ to ‘9999’.
The sale of previously issued special number plates to non-governmental organisations ended on December 31, 2019, but the government is still allowing access of special vehicle registration plates to private companies and public universities, for the purpose of raising funds for themselves. All have to be approved by the road transport department (JPJ)
According to a previous report, public universities will have to pay RM500,000 for 10,000 registrations, and must resell the plates within three years or return the plates to the department.
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Sweet memori … Universiti Utara Malaysia UUM my alma mater kat Sintok. UUM474 mudah2an
Cringey number plate.
Loki still goreng fancy plates kah? Didn’t he say he want to stop it?
Must have been blinded by all the bling moolahs.
Honestly, if the money generated goes to the government in a transparent manner, then we shouldn’t be too concerned. Previously, so called NGO (or is it cronies?) can just buy an entire series for RM1mil and then sell for hefty profit. It’s just like free money falling from the sky..
The point is, they had said this practice should stop as this creates class divides and we aren’t even sure the money goes back into the government in a transparent way or just goes back to his ministry. We can be sure they weren’t transparent to us when they bought themselves Vellfires and Accords using our money.
over the seas, plenty of business entities or philanthropist does charities to public higher institutions in return as gratitute a plaque or certicate received that you may display or hand in your office room or lobby.
meanwhile over here you may do charity to particular organization in exchange of getting a special issued vehicle registration plate screw onto your vehicle that you drive around in town, city, countryside showcasing your great charitable act.
Ironically, majority does not bother to know the true meaning of your special vehicle registration plate, they only know you are too rich because you paid dearly for it.
This must be super money-making scheme, guaranteed to make profit…..milking more money from stupidly-rich-people with insatiable ego and self-insecurity.