Mumbai traffic police is in talks with the postal department to send out notices to traffic offenders.
If you are a traffic offender, defaulting on fine payments, very soon a postman at your door might surprise you with notices sent out by the traffic department asking for pending fines.
Mumbai traffic police is in talks with the postal department to send out notices to traffic offenders. The move has been initiated after it was observed that many offenders weren't even aware that they had violated traffic rules. The Mumbai Police would be paying the postal department for their services in delivering the notices of e-challan to the violators.
"We are in the final stages of negotiation with the postal department," confirmed a traffic police officer. The e-challan system was introduced in Mumbai in November 2016 as a pilot project for 18 months and 4,700 CCTVs were installed at vital spots aiming to ensure that motorists follow traffic rules and to ensure discipline. While introducing the e-challan system the police had claimed that all the transaction would be cashless and the violators would get the e-challan on their mobile phones and neither the vehicle nor any documents would be confiscated, as the record of the fine would be maintained and the violators would need to pay their fines online.
However, after the implementation of e-challan, it was revealed that the violators are not paying up the fine even after having received more than five e-challans and the collection of the fine has gone down drastically.
"A lot of people are not actually aware that they have been fined for violations. The number of traffic offenders are in several lakhs and it would have been physically impossible for us to keep track of and visit the residences of each offender to extract fines. Hence we decided to rope in the postal department to send out notices to the traffic violators. We are working on the modalities of how many notices of e-challan will be sent by the postal department in a day to the offenders across the city," said a police officer.
THE MOTIVE
Move has been initiated after it was observed that many offenders weren’t aware of violation of traffic rules. Mumbai police is currently working on the modalities.
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