Soon, e-challans for Delhi traffic violators, more fine on repeat offenders
Errant
vehicles will now be easily prosecuted for polluting, overloading or violating
traffic and road safety norms
Current Affairs News:
Come August
1, you will be fined with an e-challan (electronic traffic ticket) if you
violate traffic lights or speed limits on Delhi roads. The Delhi Traffic Police
will no longer be the sole enforcement agency utilising technology to make the
streets of the national capital safer. To control traffic violations, the Delhi
government’s transport department will start issuing e-challans to traffic
violators instead of manual challans from next month. An integrated e-challan
system is expected to bring in more transparency in the prosecution of vehicles
violating the Motor Vehicles Act. As soon as an e-challan is issued, the owner
of the vehicle will get an SMS. The e-challan is especially intended to catch
repeat offenders, who are liable to pay higher fines, according to a Times of
India report.
With
an e-challan
system in operation from August, errant vehicles will be easily prosecuted for
polluting, overloading or violating traffic and road safety norms.
According
to The Times of India, the transport department has procured handheld devices
or e-challan tabs, one for each of its enforcement wing teams. These devices
will be technologically more advanced than the ones being used by the traffic
cops at the moment and can act as POS (point-of-sale) machines that would
accept fines through credit or debit cards and issue a challan on the spot.
There are approximately 200 personnel in the transport department’s enforcement
wing.
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