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Time of India
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
9k challans issued due to glitch in e-detection portal
Ahmedabad: In yet another technical glitch in a state transport department project, this time in the e-detection portal , 9,741 challans were issued to commercial vehicles even though their insurance was valid. This led the transport commissioner's office to issue an advisory on Friday to all Regional Transport Offices (RTO) in the state, asking them to verify the challans and send the corrected data to the head office. On April 1 this year, the state govt implemented an e-detection project, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), at toll plazas, including on Sardar Patel Ring Road, to enforce motor vehicle laws . Under e-detection system rules, "An e-challan on the Parivahan portal is to be issued to transport vehicles passing through these plazas with outdated documents like PUC, insurance, fitness, or permits," said an advisory states, "This is to inform you that an e-detection project has been implemented at toll plazas on national and state highways across the state of Gujarat to upgrade enforcement actions through technology. Operation Sindoor PM Modi meets NSA, chiefs of armed forces amid spike in tensions with Pak India's air defence systems shoot down Pak drones in J&K, Punjab & Rajasthan Several airports in India to be closed till May 15 - check list However, it has come to the attention of this office that between April 15 and April 17, e-challans were issued for vehicles under the e-detection project even when insurance was valid. It appears that during this period, 9,741 vehicles were issued challans solely for insurance reasons." The office of the commissioner of transport directed the RTOs and assistant RTOs to verify the challans on the vehicle portal. "For vehicles where insurance was valid yet a challan was issued under e-detection, the incorrect challans should be marked as 'wrong insurance challan issued' in the remarks column, and the excel sheet should be sent to this office within two days."Officials pointed out that this was the second such glitch. Earlier in 2024, it was revealed that for vehicles purchased between 2021 and 2022, the state transport department 'blacklisted' 10.5 lakh vehicles in Gujarat to 'rectify' its own mistake that led to a shortfall in the collection of temporary vehicle registration fees. In 2021, the ministry of road transport and highways had announced that 50% of the total registration cost of a vehicle will be collected as temporary registration fees, which comes to Rs 300 for cars and Rs 150 for two-wheelers. However, the provision to collect the hiked fees was not incorporated into the state transport department's online system, leading to a collection shortfall of Rs 100 per car and Rs 50 per two-wheeler. The e-detection system, as a pilot project, applies to all toll plazas under the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the roads and buildings department in the state and will be rolled out country-wide based on the outcomes and recommendations.
The Hindu
28-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Hindu
230 high-tech cameras for monitoring traffic violations in Mangaluru to be commissioned soon
Traffic violations namely signal jumping, driving without helmet, over-speeding, triple riding, driving without wearing seatbelt on major roads like M.G. Road and Mangaladevi Temple Road and 32 other locations in the city henceforth will not go unnoticed as Mangaluru city police are all set to commission 230 high-tech traffic surveillance cameras newly installed. The new cameras will capture photographs and take video of each violation and send the same to the Integrated Command Control Centre at the Lalbagh. The police officer sitting at the Centre will authenticate the visuals, which will lead to issuing e-challan to owner of vehicle registered in the country. These new cameras were installed as part of the phase two of Intelligent Traffic Management System Project under Mangaluru Smart City Mission. Home Minister G. Parameshwara is expected to commission the operations of the cameras soon. As many as 15 cameras were installed in phase one of the project. The feeds of 15 cameras have multiple purposes, like for monitoring air pollution, in addition to traffic surveillance. An official from Mangaluru Smart City Ltd. said all the 230 cameras will be used for traffic enforcement and monitoring. Among these 230 cameras include 'Automated Number Plate Recognition' (ANPR) cameras, evidence cameras and 'Bullet' cameras. The official said each of the two poles placed at every location will have two ANPR cameras and a evidence camera to record movement of vehicles. While ANPR cameras will capture images of all offences, the evidence cameras are used specifically to register 'no seat belt' cases. The bullet cameras are used for traffic monitoring. A 10-second video and about 30 images of each violation captured by the cameras get transferred into the system maintained at MSCL's Integrated Command Control Centre. A police official looks at the images and saves them after verification. Then the feed is transferred to another system that is connected with the vehicle database 'Parivahan' of Union Transport Department, which is maintained by the National Informatics Centre. After verification of vehicle details displayed, the e-chalan gets generated for collecting penalty. A SMS from Parivahan is sent to the vehicle owner's mobile number and the owner will be given 15 days to file objection if any over the violation. Then link for paying penalty is sent and payment can be made using different UPI apps. The penalty gets credited to the Treasury and e-acknowledgement is sent to the mobile phone of the payee, the MSCL official said. The MSCL has connected 13 traffic signals to 'adaptive traffic management system' through which operation of signals can be controlled from MSCL's Command Control Centre, the official said. Mangaluru Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal said trial run of new cameras is on.
