Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 23

After the UT traffic police started a drive to visit the houses of traffic violators in the city who have failed to pay their TVIS (Traffic Violation Information Slip) challans, the police have collected Rs7.91 lakh from the offenders over a month.

Two teams were constituted for the campaign that was launched by the police on July 15. The police said a total of 1,005 houses had been visited by these teams and 1,180 challans worth Rs7.91 lakh paid by offenders.

The police teams found that the addresses of 308 traffic violators had changed, 36 had sold their houses, 27 had sold their vehicles, 12 had passed away and 54 vehicle owners were out of station.

“Around 324 people agreed to pay the pending challans in future,” said a police official. The police said the campaign would continue and efforts were being made to trace more traffic violators residing in Chandigarh who had failed to pay their TVIS challans.

Houses visited: 1,005

TVIS challans paid: 1,108

Fine collected: Rs7.91 lakh