UP cancels pending vehicle challans; states fret over mounting e-challans
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, June 9: At a time when the state governments are faced with ever growing number of e-challans issued by traffic police by capturing offences on mobile phones and also by cameras, Uttar Pradesh government has decided to cancel all such pending challans issued from January 1, 2017 till December 21, 2021.
The relief given by the UP government will be available for both the private and commercial vehicle owners of the state. “The cancellation applies to all challans issued between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2021, regardless of the vehicle type. This includes cases that are currently pending in various courts,” said the UP government in an official media statement.
Transport Commissioner Chandra Bhushan Singh instructed all divisional transport officers to withdraw these challans from the portal once they receive the court’s list of abated cases. “This decision by the UP government will provide tremendous relief to the general public. The government has issued instructions to all divisional transport offices to remove pending challans from the e-challan portal after receiving the court’s list,” added the state government. Farmers in Noida were protesting for the cancellation of such challans. This move paves the way for the waiver of crores of challans across Uttar Pradesh, added the state government.
With cameras mounted all across the highways and the city roads, e-challans are being issued in a large number all across the country. Recently, the Karnataka government came out with an offer to give 50 per cent rebate on the pending e-challans.
In Uttar Pradesh, several villages are across the highways and the farmers have bene raising their issue that they have wrongly been issued the e-challans, while very few follow traffic rules, including wearing helmets while riding two-wheelers.
In Noida, the UP traffic police in place of physically confronting the riders for violating the traffic rules just take picture in their mobile phones and instantly upload them on the traffic portal for automatic generation of the e-challans.
Several cities in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and other states are fretting over uncleared e-challans, with the traffic officials stating that in several instances the violators are not even aware that they have been issued the e-challans.
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