Mumbai,
Oct 25 (PTI) : The Maharashtra and Goa circle of the postal department has
expressed willingness to deliver e-challans to traffic offenders by speed post.
The
department has written a letter to the Mumbai Traffic Police as well as the
state government in this regard, an official said.
The
traffic police had been sending e-challans to motorists for violating norms
through SMS. However, this system is reportedly not working well as e-challans
are not getting delivered properly because of frequent change in mobile phone
numbers of offenders.
"Therefore,
we have come forward and written to the traffic police as well as the state
government to let us deliver e-challans to their (offenders') doorstep through
our speed-post service.
"The
violators can deposit challan amount in the nearest post office through
e-payment mode of the department," said H C Agrawal, Chief Post Master
General (CPMG) of the Maharashtra and Goa Circle.
But
this move (delivering e-challans through speed post) will put additional
financial burden on the police department's budget. Therefore, the traffic
police alone will not be able to go ahead with the proposal," Agrawal
said.
The
official suggested that to overcome the financial burden, the speed post cost
could be recovered from offenders themselves.
If
e-challans are printed and delivered at violators address with an
acknowledgement receipt, it will ensure offenders pay the fine and police get
their rightful revenue, he said, "this will also sending a message to
motorists to follow traffic rules." With a view to digitise the entire
process of recovering fines from road rule violators, the Mumbai traffic
police, in January this year, launched e-challan system.
It
set up CCTV cameras across the city to monitor traffic violations. Whenever a
motorist broke traffic rules, his/her vehicles number was captured on CCTV
cameras.
Later,
an SMS was sent about fine to be paid after obtaining the offender's mobile
phone registered with the RTO.
According
to figures, on an average 5,000 e-challans are issued daily in Mumbai, mostly
for over-speeding, signal jumping, not wearing helmets, triple-riding on two
wheelers, talking on phone while driving, driving without seat belts and
overstepping at zebra crossings.
Source
: http://www.newindianexpress.com
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