Hazaribagh traffic police have started a drive of vehicle checking in the town from January 2 and in last five days they hve collected Rs72,000 as fine from the vehicle owners. The highlight of this drive is that the traffic police are using cashless transaction systems for receiving the fine amount.
On Saturday such drive was going on near St Columba’s college where traffic in-charge of Hazaribagh Inspector Manish Chandra Paul said, “Our department has started this drive in the month of December and last month we collected Rs3.58 lakhs as fine from different places of the district. We are using Paytm, BHIM, SBI Buddy and ePoS machines to receive the fine amount from the defaulters.
During this drive Hazaribagh traffic police is specially checking the papers of the vehicle, insurance paper, driving license and helmet in case of two wheelers. Inspector Paul said that in the town we use to change sites everyday. During last five days our team conducted this drive in lake road, near DVC chowk, Barkagaon road and Katkamsandi road near Kallu chowk.
This year the traffic police is looking more vigilant on the use of helmets as most of the persons fined on Saturday where those who were not wearing helmets. Inspector said that we are also making the list of persons who are breaking the traffic rules regularly. The vehicle numbers and owners name gets included in our list everyday through this cashless system and from next week those who will be caught again and again will have to give three or four times fine in comparison to the amount fined for the first time.