Are you riding the two-wheeler without a helmet? If the traffic police haven't caught you in the act yet, be prepared to face the brunt soon. To prevent Amdavadis from riding vehicles without helmets, the Ahmedabad traffic police will install 500 new CCTV cameras at 87 junctions of the city which can automatically detect motorists not wearing the helmets.

The city already has 1,300 CCTV cameras installed at these junctions, of which 500 will be replaced with automatically helmet detecting cameras by mid of 2019.

"We will install around 20 cameras at some of the major junctions before March 2019. We will replace the rest of the cameras that are already installed as per requirement. Right now, we generate around 25,000 e-challans daily. Once these cameras are installed this number will go up."Akshayraj Makwana, DCP of traffic, said.

Currently, the department manually generates the challans. The officer on duty at Shahibaug takes screenshots from CCTV footages and generates the challan. But after the new facilty will be installed, it will actomatically capture images of the offenders. The new system will be like the automatic cameras installed for detection of red light violation that captures offenders flunking traffic signals, and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) that takes picture of the registration plate of the vehicle violating rules.

ROAD TO SAFETY

Ahmedabad traffic police will crack down on riders without helmets 

• 226 – CCTV cameras installed in 82 major junctions  
• Rs 19 lakh – challans issued   
• Rs 7.4 lakh – people paid the fine  
• Rs 11.6 lakh – offenders didn’t pay the fine

October 2014  

• Ahmedabad Traffic Depart-ment introduce e-challan across the city  
• Photos of offenders were captured by the cameras and the e-challans were delivered directly to their homes through postal service  
• However, authorities discontinued the system in January, 2018, after the cops failed to recover fines

April 2018

• Ahmedabad Traffic Police relaunch the e-challan system