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Ahmedabad: Jump a signal & get an e-challan at your home in 6 hours doorstep

RLVD & ANPR will use upcoming CCTV surveillance to identify traffic offenders and deliver challans at offenders’ residences

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In the near future, you may reach home to find a challan waiting for you at your doorstep for having jumped red light at a traffic signal. With work on the city-wide CCTV surveillance network set to commence, traffic police would soon be able to send automated challans (e-challans) to traffic violators. Mind you, it would come within six hours of committing the offence.

The state home department has recently awarded the work to install over 300 CCTV cameras in Ahmedabad and two other cities to L&T, which would help police send automated challans to offenders under the Red Light Violation Detection (RLVD) system. The entire project is estimated to cost Rs60 crore.

According to home department officials, under the City Surveillance and Intelligent Traffic Monitoring System (CSITMS), of the over 300 CCTV cameras to be set up across Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Vadodara, 276 would be installed at 82 strategic locations here in the city alone. These cameras would transmit live feed to a central control room in the respective city. One of the uses of this system is the hi-tech RLVD system, through which an automated or manually generated e-challan would reach the doorstep of a traffic violator within six hours of the offence, said officials. “According to our knowledge, only Delhi and Chandigarh have implemented this system so far,” said a senior police official. Using the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology, the system would be able to access the respective RTO database and locate the vehicle owner’s residence. It would then print out an e-challan based on the offence, e.g. jumping a red light or reckless driving. The receipt would then be sent to the offender’s residence via courier.  

State home secretary SK Nanda said the system would help to instil self-discipline among vehicle drivers. “The harassment of drivers will come down, too,” he pointed out. Home department officials said the system, once in place, should be able to dispose of as many as 50,000 such challans per month across the three cities. For Ahmedabad, the central control room is likely to come up at the proposed new office of the police commissioner near the Sabarmati riverfront.

The project to install CCTV cameras at public places in these cities is part of the CSITMS. Apart from setting up the network, L&T would be responsible for maintenance and operating it, too.

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