Taking the use of technology in traffic policing to yet another level, the Telangana government on Thursday launched the integrated e-challan system for violation of traffic rules covering the Hyderabad and Cyberabad Commissionerates.
Described as the first of its kind system in the country with multiple applications synchronised with a central server to record different types of traffic rule breaches, the system would be extended in the near future to the entire State, said Home Minister Nayani Narsimha Reddy.
If this is done, a lorry being rashly driven in Bellampally of Adilabad can be intercepted in Hyderabad and imposed a fine and vice versa, said Mr. Reddy.
No loopholes
Till now, Hyderabad and Cyberabad had separate systems for imposing fines for breach of traffic rules like jumping signals.
A traffic policeman in Cyberabad would have no idea if a vehicle -- be it a bike or car – he is checking had any traffic challans issued against it by Hyderabad police.
He would collect fine amounts as per the records in the Cyberabad database and release the vehicle on payment of the amount. Same was the situation in Hyderabad as well.
Integrated system
Combining both the databases, an integrated system was created to penalise vehicle drivers breaking traffic rules, track persons repeatedly indulging in such offences and determine and analyse the pattern of violations.
Uploading on central server
All traffic rule violations recorded by policemen using digital cameras, signal jumping violations recorded by cameras at junctions and over-speeding cases recorded by laser speed guns would be uploaded to the central server.
This would be updated with the database fed into the Programmable Digital Assistants (PDAs) carried by field level traffic policemen.
Traffic policemen would continue to issue spot challans to errant drivers using PDAs.
A citizen can check the status of his e-challans issued against his or her vehicle online by browsing the websites of Hyderabad or Cyberabad traffic police and clicking on the relevant links.
Online payment
They can pay the fine amounts online also following the procedure mentioned in the link, use debit or credit cards or manually at e-Seva centres and traffic compounding booths.
The new system sends alerts to the vehicle owner’s registered mobile phone through Short Messaging Service (SMS) soon after an e-challan is issued.
Developed by ASCI
The new system was developed with the Administrative Staff College of India as the nodal agency and a private company, M/s Mother Technologies Project Ventures, ICICI Bank and Airtel as partners.
A citizen can check the status of his e-challans issued against his or her vehicle online by browsing the websites of Hyderabad or Cyberabad traffic police
Described as the first of its kind system in the country with multiple applications synchronised with a central server to record different types of traffic rule breaches, the system would be extended in the near future to the entire State, said Home Minister Nayani Narsimha Reddy.
If this is done, a lorry being rashly driven in Bellampally of Adilabad can be intercepted in Hyderabad and imposed a fine and vice versa, said Mr. Reddy.
No loopholes
Till now, Hyderabad and Cyberabad had separate systems for imposing fines for breach of traffic rules like jumping signals.
A traffic policeman in Cyberabad would have no idea if a vehicle -- be it a bike or car – he is checking had any traffic challans issued against it by Hyderabad police.
He would collect fine amounts as per the records in the Cyberabad database and release the vehicle on payment of the amount. Same was the situation in Hyderabad as well.
Integrated system
Combining both the databases, an integrated system was created to penalise vehicle drivers breaking traffic rules, track persons repeatedly indulging in such offences and determine and analyse the pattern of violations.
Uploading on central server
All traffic rule violations recorded by policemen using digital cameras, signal jumping violations recorded by cameras at junctions and over-speeding cases recorded by laser speed guns would be uploaded to the central server.
This would be updated with the database fed into the Programmable Digital Assistants (PDAs) carried by field level traffic policemen.
Traffic policemen would continue to issue spot challans to errant drivers using PDAs.
A citizen can check the status of his e-challans issued against his or her vehicle online by browsing the websites of Hyderabad or Cyberabad traffic police and clicking on the relevant links.
Online payment
They can pay the fine amounts online also following the procedure mentioned in the link, use debit or credit cards or manually at e-Seva centres and traffic compounding booths.
The new system sends alerts to the vehicle owner’s registered mobile phone through Short Messaging Service (SMS) soon after an e-challan is issued.
Developed by ASCI
The new system was developed with the Administrative Staff College of India as the nodal agency and a private company, M/s Mother Technologies Project Ventures, ICICI Bank and Airtel as partners.
A citizen can check the status of his e-challans issued against his or her vehicle online by browsing the websites of Hyderabad or Cyberabad traffic police.
