CP inaugurates e-challan system and e-payment gateway for traffic police

New Delhi: The Commissioner of Delhi Police Amulya Patnaik on Friday inaugurated the new e-challan system and the e-payment gateway for the use of Delhi Traffic Police. During the testing phase, 6,03,503 challans were issued using the new e-challan devices as a result of which, compounding amount of approximately Rs. 9.5 crores were collected. The Police Commissioner in his inaugural address stated that this state of the art system is an important milestone in deploying cutting edge technologies for improving prosecution against traffic violators and achieve better road safety standards in Delhi.

Amulya Patnaik also indicated the growing need for increasing technology-based systems in the traffic police. He gave insight into ambitious projects that are in the final stages of commissioning in the near future.

The e-challaning system will integrate all these systems into one holistic professionally managed prosecution and traffic management system that will give a critical fillip to our efforts of achieving safe driving conditions in Delhi. The inaugural ceremony was attended by Spl.CP/Traffic Sh. Taj Hassan, DG (NIC). Dr. Neeta Verma and other senior officials of Delhi Police and NIC.

According to police, the E-challan system is state of the art project that deploys the latest Hand Held Devices and Android-based operating system with a fully integrated software application. The system is developed by the NIC with key operational and legal inputs from the Delhi Police.

The E-challan devices are enabled with active GPS where the challaning officer and the violator, both can be logged and tracked to a particular geo-location. This is an important tool for evidence to establish the credibility of the prosecution.

"All other modes of technical prosecution like the camera violation app etc are also connected to the e-challan system so that the data is updated regularly and sent to the NIC on a realtime basis. Now the challaning officers in Delhi will have access to the vehicle/driver violation history instantly. The payment of a traffic notice will be sent to them via post or the SMS on their mobile phone," police said.

"So far in the trials and testing stage of the e-payment gateway and the e-challan system 28,024 notices have been compounded, out of which 16,369 were done using e-option which amounts to around 58.41 percent of the notices of traffic violations being compounded using the e-option," police said.