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him/her about traffic violation and the set up in the state highway police’s
speed of the vehicle. The system is office in Mumbai as part of the second
linked with the e-challan and Vaahan phase of the project, which will include
e-Challan happens applications of the government, and all cities in the state.
to be one of the a challan is generated instantly by the Similarly, if you are caught violating
police at the traffic enforcement centre
comprehensive at the toll plaza. traffic rules on city roads of Vadodara,
the traffic cop will now simply pull out
digital solutions Violators who have been issued the his smartphone and click the photo of
for traffic/transport ‘speed cam violation slip’ at the toll your vehicle’s registration number. An
e-challan will then reach your residence
enforcement. can pay the `400 fine for speeding in the next few days. To smoothen traffic
at the police window near the toll
plaza. Those who do not pay the fine flow in the city, police have decided to
instantly can visit the SP traffic office in crack down on rule violations. To make
Noida to pay the challan amount within sure offenders are penalized, cops have
seven days. taken to technology.
With this technology, the traffic cops An ambitious traffic laws’ enforcement “A special mobile application has
can manage to save their valuable time project, ‘one state one e-challan’ – been installed on smartphones of head
and focus on the traffic situation. The which seeks to integrate the e-challan constables. When they see a traffic rules
paperless system help personnel for system across Maharashtra is likely to violation, all they have to do is intercept
speedy challans.
be operationalised soon. As part of the the offender and click a photo of the
Ever since a crackdown on errant proposed scheme, the traffic police vehicle’s license plate using the mobile
vehicles began in the month of April will be able to serve offenders uniform app called Vadodara Traffic Police
at the Yamuna Expressway, around e-challans, irrespective of the district or (VTP),” informed police personnel from
50,056 challans have been issued in city where the violation occurred. The the traffic department at Vadodara.
the past few months for exceeding traffic police headquarters will be the The smartphones of these cops have
the speed limit on the corridor that hub from where the e-challan updates been connected to our software in the
connects Greater Noida and Agra. On will be controlled. In order to be armed police control room. When they enter
an average, more than 800 vehicles are with e-challan machines, the traffic the photograph of the licence plate and
caught speeding daily. According to police have ordered 4,500 handheld details of the driver, the information
traffic police data, since the beginning devices, which will provide details of will be fed into the e-challan section at
of this year, 296 traffic violators were any pending e-challans that might be the control room.
penalised on the expressway in January. registered in the name of the vehicle. An e-challan will then be generated
The average traffic penalties in the Amitesh Kumar, Joint Commissioner and sent to the address of the offender.
mid-April to mid-June have been about of Police (Traffic), Mumbai said, The aim of the system is to identify
25,000 times higher than the first three “This new e-challan system will bring offenders on the spot and make sure
months of the year. transparency as well as bring down they are penalized. Police is already
“Physically stopping speeding the instances of conflict between using CCTV cameras to identify and
vehicles on an expressway is difficult constables and violators. This system penalize those driving on the wrong
and dangerous for the police. It is also also intends to lessen the manpower side, jumping signals and riding two-
risky from a road safety perspective. required for charging traffic violators.” wheelers without helmets. E-challans
Integrating cameras with the The project rolled out in the month are being sent to the residences
e-challaning system has helped penalise of June has been set up in five of offenders. Also, on-the-spot
more violators and they are intimated separate cities of Maharashtra in the photographing of vehicles and sending
about it immediately at the toll plaza, first phase of the project. The cities e-challans is expected to discipline
which helps keep them in check”, said, that are included in the first phase are commuters.
Anil Kumar Jha, Superintendent of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune Previously e-challans were only issued
Police (Traffic), Noida. and Nagpur. During the first phase, the to those who had broken rules where
Vehicles riding over 100km per hour main hub of traffic control will be set CCTV cameras were present. Now with
are recorded by cameras installed along up in Mumbai’s traffic headquarters in the introduction of newer technology,
the expressway. The driver is issued a Worli. However, the state centralised rule-violators do not have much chances
challan slip at the toll plaza, informing operations headquarters will be later for getting away.

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