Telangana has added 21 more districts in its political map after carving them out from the existing ten districts. With new districts comes new RTOs, and this post will talk about the same. The jurisdictions of some existing RTOs have also changed. Telangana now has 20 more new RTOs as compared to the previous sixteen, making it a total of 36, with a district-wise hierachy.
TS-01: ADILABAD
TS-02: KARIMNAGAR
TS-03: WARANGAL URBAN (Entire distt. to urban area)
TS-04: KHAMMAM
TS-05: NALGONDA
TS-06: MAHBUBNAGAR
TS-07: RANGAREDDY DISTRICT (RTO earlier in Attapur, Undivided RR Dist.)
TS-08: MEDCHAL (RTO earlier in Ibrahimpatnam, Undivided RR Dist.)
TS-09: HYDERABAD CENTRAL (Khairathabad)
TS-10: HYDERABAD NORTH (Secunderabad)
TS-11: HYDERABAD EAST (Malakpet) inc. SHAMSHABAD Distt.
TS-12: HYDERABAD SOUTH (Kishanbagh) inc. SHAMSHABAD Distt.
TS-13: HYDERABAD WEST (Tolichowki) inc. SHAMSHABAD Distt.
TS-14: HYDERABAD (Yet to be used)
TS-15: SANGAREDDY (Earlier RTO for Medak distt.)
TS-16: NIZAMABAD
TS-17: KAMAREDDY (Earlier TS-16)
TS-18: NIRMAL (Earlier TS-01)
TS-19:MANCHERIAL (Earlier TS-01)
TS-20: KOMARANBHEEM/ASIFABAD (Earlier TS-01)
TS-21: JAGTIAL (Earlier TS-02)
TS-22: PEDAPALLI (Earlier TS-02)
TS-23: RAJANNA/SIRCILLA (Earlier TS-02)
TS-24: WARANGAL RURAL (Earlier TS-03)
TS-25: JAYASHANKAR (Earlier TS-03)
TS-26: MAHABUBABAD (Earlier TS-03)
TS-27: JANGAON (Earlier TS-03/TS-05)
TS-28: BHADRADRI (Earlier TS-04)
TS-29: SURYAPET (Earlier TS-05)
TS-30: YADADRI (Earlier TS-05)
TS-31: NAGARKURNOOL (Earlier TS-06)
TS-32: WANAPARTHY (Earlier TS-06)
TS-33: JOGULAMBA (Earlier TS-06)
TS-34: VIKARABAD (Earlier TS-07)
TS-35: MEDAK (Earlier TS-15)
TS-36: SIDDIPET (Earlier TS-15)
Points to be noticed:
When Telangana was formed on 2nd June 2014, they started issuing all their registrations from 'EA' for private vehicles, 'UA' for commercial vehicles and 'PA' for police vehicles. However, they have started the new RTOs with the blank (No letter code) series for private vehicles and 'T' for commercial vehicles
Registration patterns remains the same:
TS-**-**** to TS-**-SZ-****: PRIVATE VEHICLES
T,U,V,W,X,Y for all commercial vehicles (inc. tractors and trailers)
TS-**-T-**** to TS-**-YZ-****: COMMERCIAL VHICLES
TS-09-'PA'-****: TELANGANA POLICE
TS-**-Z-****: TELANGANA STATE TRANSPORT VEHICLES