In its bid to establish the identity of traffic offenders in a more effective way, the Gurugram Traffic Police is soon going to link Aadhaar, PAN card and Bank account of the offender to the E-challan system in collaboration with the State Bank of India (SBI). Traffic Police will intends to go cashless and connect Aadhaar, PAN card and Bank accounts of the traffic violators to pay fines on the spot.
However, it is unclear whether the traffic department will make it mandatory for motorists to carry Aadhaar, PAN card in the future. The city police had recently launched 150 E-challan machines for the E-challan system. Policemen can use the handheld E-challan devices to issue fines on the spot to traffic offenders.
The machines can also issue receipts and accept fines by swiping debit or credit cards. Those without debit/credit cards will be able to pay fines via Aadhaar, PAN card and Bank accounts soon. The system has already started in several cities across India.
“The idea behind linking Aadhaar, PAN and Bank accounts, is to allow our personnel to check and verify the identity of any offender on the spot. Secondly, the violation fine will be deducted from the bank accounts of the offenders and the traffic police will go completely cashless,” DCP (Traffic), Sulochana Gajraj said.
“We are in talks with the management of SBI. The cashless system will be started soon,” she added. Earlier in 2017, the Gurugrm police had launched postal challan system. The initiative was started to give more power to the city residents to help traffic police in catching traffic rules’ violators by sending pictures of violators on the Whatsapp number (9999981800) and email id - (pcbranch@gmail.com) issued by traffic police.
"We are getting full support of the city residents who are filing their complaint about traffic violation across the district. They are sending a photograph and short video clip with details such as number, place, date and time of the violation of the Whatsapp number," the DCP said.