Karnataka top state to generate e-challan for traffic violations: ADGP

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: According to data shared by the Additional Director General of Police, Traffic and Safety, (Alok Kumar) around 50 per cent of traffic e-challans in the country are generated from Karnataka state.

ADGP Alok Kumar said that a record number of e-challans for traffic violations were generated from the state between August 1 and August 9.

"Traffic Violation related fine collection using e-challan, Karnataka is far far ahead in the whole country. More than 50 per cent e-challan generation from Karnataka itself," the officer said on Thursday.

Alok Kumar is also stressed that the state police will refrain from manual receipt generation for traffic violations in future.

"Very soon the whole state is going to be covered by e-challan, discarding the manual receipt system," he added.

According to the data, a total of 24,694 e-challans were generated between August 1 and 9 in Karnataka and 111 challans out of them are settled by the violators. Tamil Nadu is in second place with 7,160 e-challans and Maharashtra stood at third place with 4,468 e-challans.

In the past, the Karnataka government announced a 50 per cent rebate at Bengaluru on traffic fines to encourage people to clear the traffic fines on their vehicles.

The scheme is applicable across the state till September 9 this year. Encouraged by the scheme, a lot of people with e–challan cases in the city visited the traffic police stations and the Traffic Management Centre to clear the pending fines.

Many violators also paid pending traffic fines through PayTM and Karnataka One website.