Now, e-pay traffic violation challans on the spot in Chandigarh

CHANDIGARH: Finally, the facility of e-payment of traffic violation challans on the spot was launched in the city on Friday.
UT administrator V P Singh Badnore initiated the e-challaning system at Punjab Raj Bhawan.
Officials said e-challan is the project of the ministry of road transport and highways developed by NIC that provides a number of user-friendly features, covering all the functions of traffic enforcement system like issuance of traffic e-challan and on-the-spot cashless payment.
Now, traffic violators need not stand for hours in queues at Traffic Lines in Sector 29. With the project, which was initiated in 2011, traffic violators can pay fines through debit/credit cards for compoundable offences like riding without helmet, triple riding, wrong parking, not wearing a seat belt and zebra line violations in the first phase. In the second phase, payments through UPI would be accepted, cops said.
Traffic police will no longer accept fines in cash at Traffic Lines or on the spot, with people required to pay through debits and credit cards only.
For drunken driving, red light jumping, driving while using a mobile phone and speeding, there will be no option of on-the-spot payment as cops will seize the driving licence and send it to the court.
All traffic cops will have e-challan devices that will have in-built facilities for making online payment with cards. These devices will also have a history of challans pertaining to the offending vehicles with their payment status. Axis Bank has provided 200 e-challaning devices. The bank will also provide on-the-spot field support to traffic police for the project.
These hand-held devices are connected to the Chandigarh Registration and Licensing Authority (RLA) and traffic police server. Information of previous offences will also be mentioned on the traffic ticket.
On the occasion, Chandigarh Traffic Police sent bulk SMS to over 60,000 motorists informing them about online payment gateway for payment against their pending postal challans.
The administrator also inaugurated the website of Chandigarh Traffic Police https://chandigarhtrafficpolice. This website will give information about services like payment of postal challans and driving history record, among others. The 10th edition of annual report on “Road Safety in Chandigarh-2019’’ was also released by the administrator.
Manoj Kumar Parida, advisor to the administrator, UT, Sanjay Baniwal, DGP, Shashank Anand, DIG, traffic and security, DK Das, executive VP and head of government business group, Axis Bank, were also present on the occasion.