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NEWS

Road Courtesy Traffic police to deliver e-challan by Post
campaign in he Maharashtra
Vadodara Postal Department

Thas tied-up with the
fter conducting an intense
drive for ensuring that Nagpur Police to deliver
Apeople follow traffic more than four lakh
rules in Vadodara city, the e-challans to traffic violators
police launched a Road Courtesy and collected more than Rs
campaign. The cops want to 14Cr as fines. The postal
educate citizens in basic driving department is now exploring
discipline, especially during peak similar partnerships with the
hours when busy roads are packed police forces in the cities of
with vehicles. The objective is Mumbai, Pune and Thane.
to train citizens on maintaining It was the first such tie-up
safe distance, especially from big in India where e-challans
vehicles to avoid accident and to are generated by the traffic
be patient on roads. The focus police and sent by speed
of the campaign was to address post to traffic violators.
commuters to have foresight Along with delivery of partnership is not simply to the Postal and police
while driving on the roads and e-challans, violators can also collect penalty amounts, departments is also expected
give proper signals while taking deposit the challan amount but to assist the police in to become active in Pune.
turn or changing lanes. The last in the post office. They ensuring that motorists The postal department will
leg of the campaign appealed follow rules. not just deliver e-challans
citizens to give way to emergency can transfer it to the traffic but also to collect fines for
vehicles and not overtake from police via the e-payment Apart from Nagpur, Pune police.
wrong side. system. The purpose of the the partnership between

‘Vahan’ to provide details Bilateral Cooperation between India-Russia
of Traffic Violators n order to develop and establish satellite-based tolling solutions.

fter the successful integration of formal platform for cooperation Similarly, they have also adopted
‘Vahan’ software developed by Iin the Transport and Highways advanced intelligent traffic
ANational Informatics Centre (NIC) sector, a Memorandum-of management systems including
on the Yamuna Expressway, the same -Understanding in the field of crash reporting/ monitoring
will be tried out with highway traffic Road Transport and Road Industry systems.
management system (HTMS) of Noida- has been jointly negotiated and Russia is keen to help India lay
Greater Noida expressway too. Officials can finalized by India and Russia. out an electronic toll collection
access complete information of the traffic Increased co-operation, exchange system, which will run on satellite
violator within minutes and e-challans are and collaboration with Russia will navigation technology and cover
issued to offenders. contribute to establish a long-term vehicles plying on highways across
and effective bilateral relationship
Traffic police are trying to link their newly of communication and cooperation the nation. Moscow is offering to
launched e-challan mobile application with in road transportation, road share its experience in implementing
Vahan database, so that the e-challan industry and Intelligent Transport Platon, an electronic system to
generated at any of these roads can show System (ITS). This will also help collect toll from transporters for
the previous history of the violator. in planning and administration of plying trucks on the highways
Detection cameras will be set up at road infrastructure & road network across Russian Federation. The
accident prone spots. The cameras will management, transport policy, Platon was introduced in Russia
detect any abrupt incident on the highway, technologies & standards for the in 2015, is the largest electronic
such as collisions, speeding or irregular construction and operation of toll collection system in the world
lane movements. These will be monitored highways in the country. and it now covers over two million
round-the-clock at the control room, which trucks – the ones with gross vehicle
will have an in-charge and support staff. Russia has also developed weight over 12 tons – plying on
technological solutions for 50774km of federal highways.

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