Fine pending for Atal Bridge 21 times: No PUC, no insurance; If e-memo is pending, the vehicle will be impounded.

If the e-challan of your vehicle is pending and you are taking it lightly thinking that it will be 'will be there, then we will pay it', then be careful. Because if the e-challan is not filled, then your vehicle can be confiscated. Not only this, the registration certificate book (RC book) and the Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUC) will also not be available. The Supreme Court has taken a strict stand against those who do not pay e-challan after violating traffic rules and has given such directions to the states. Earlier, the Supreme Court had also said that the amount of the driver whose e-challan is due should be added to the electricity bill. This suggestion sparked a debate across the country. Is this possible? If so, how it can be made possible has become a topic of discussion among the people. In this regard, Divya Bhaskar spoke to the traffic office and traffic problem expert. The purpose of fining e-challans was to prevent accidents caused by traffic regulation and haphazard vehicles rather than collecting money, but the Supreme Court has also noted that the motorists have not paid a fine of crores of rupees. Understand what the court said with the graphics below. The reason behind the Supreme Court having to say this is the huge amount of e-challans. E-challans worth Rs 49,000 crore are yet to be paid in the country. Gujarat is in the top-5 in the whole country in terms of the highest number of currency generated. In Gujarat, motorists have not paid e-challans worth Rs 1608 crore. You will be surprised to know that the Atal Bridge in Ahmedabad was built 21 times with this amount. This amount is 1.6 times the total cost of the Sudarshan Setu Bridge connecting Okha and Bet Dwarka. What will happen if blacklisted? J.N. Barewadia, a retired joint director of the Gujarat Transport Commissioner's Office, welcomed the directions given by the Supreme Court. He told Divya Bhaskar that a criterion has to be decided that how many challans have been created should be blacklisted. Suppose a minimum of three challans have been issued, but if the driver does not pay the fine, it can be blacklisted. The vehicle cannot be insured, its data cannot be accessed, the vehicle cannot be transferred, no documents of the vehicle can be uploaded, duplicate RC cannot be booked. Thus, the black list means that the driver cannot access the data of his vehicle. He can access the data only after paying the e-challan penalty. By doing so, he will definitely have to pay the e-challan. "There is no plan not to renew the license if the e-challan is due. There is a rule for the RC book. If any information was required to take a duplicate RC book, change of address, change of ownership, it was stopped manually. The next process was going on only after getting the No Due Certificate from the RTO. Now that digitization has been done, it should directly show that your e-challan is due." On the suggestion of linking the amount to the light bill if the drivers do not pay the fine, he said that even 2 minutes cannot run without lights. If the light goes off even for 10 minutes, then there is a problem. There is nothing wrong in expecting people to pay the e-challan before the e-challan is issued and added to the light bill because of the Supreme Court's decision to add the fine amount to the light bill. Take the details of the light bill at the time of vehicle registration Regarding how to add the amount of e-challan to the light bill amount, he says that it is not difficult to do so. This is possible if the details of the light bill are compulsorily asked for when the vehicle is registered or the vehicle is transferred. The customer ID number comes in the light bill, which is linked to the vehicle registration, then the fine amount of the e-challan can be automatically generated. Now that AI has also come, nothing is impossible. If there is any confusion in this, then its solution has to be brought. If any software is developed, there are small and big mistakes in it. It has to be improved. "Many times it is also possible that if the vehicle is in the name of someone X and the light bill is in the name of his family member, then he has to give a declaration that his light bill belongs to his family member." He further explains that now there is another option that it is not necessary to register the vehicle at the same address at which you are living on rent. If you live in any city of Gujarat and register your vehicle at Ahmedabad RTO, then it can also be done there. Now you can apply online and there is no need to go to the RTO. The application can be made by linking the Aadhaar card and the light bill. If it happens that someone does not have his own house and he has to attach the light bill, then he has to give a declaration along with the rent agreement that he lives in this house and this is his light bill. If a driver does not pay the e-memo penalty, then the owner of the house will have to be careful. Talking about other strict measures against those who are negligent in filing e-challans, he says that the insurance company and the PUC center should be linked to the e-challan. Unless the driver pays the e-challan, he should not be able to get a PUC certificate or insurance. "I came to know in the news that those whose e-challan is due will be linked to the passport. There is no problem with this system, but only limited people have passports. Middle class or lower middle class people do not have passports. People from the upper middle class or upper class have passports and such people mostly drive cars. It is normal for them to fill out e-challans. The problem is only for the two-wheeler owners, especially the labour class. They don't even have insurance. Such people have no other option but to detain their vehicle." Regarding what can be done about migrant transport vehicles coming and going in Gujarat, he said that if any vehicle is fined anywhere in India, it will have to pay the fine from the website itself. Suppose the memo of the car of Maharashtra is torn in Gujarat, then the money is going to be deposited in the account of the person who checked in Gujarat. Similarly, if the car from Gujarat has gone to Rajasthan or the South, you can also pay the challan sitting at home. If you do not pay within 90 days, then you have to go to the RTO or the court of that area. At present, the principle of 'One Challan, One Country' has been adopted. The challans of the vehicle that burst are available on the Morth website. "At present, e-challans are allowed for 45 days. If there is any dispute about the e-challan, then the representation can be made. The fine has to be paid within 90 days. If the fine amount is not paid by then, the case is transferred to the court and the driver has to go to court." Pointing out the fraud in the name of e-challan, he said that in the fraud that is taking place now, the e-challan transport does not have a dot written on it instead of a dot and a NIC. I would like to tell people to use the website of MoRTH for the pending e-challan of your vehicle. Do not download any app from Google and use it. *** Dr. Praveen Kanabar is the President of the Active Traffic Consultative Committee Trust and an orthopedic surgeon. He told Divya Bhaskar that some time ago, there was a rule that if the fine was not paid within 90 days, the case would go to court. This rule also does not seem to have had much effect, so the Supreme Court has suggested adding the fine amount to the electricity bill. For this arrangement, the connection between the traffic police and the RTO and the arrangement for posting demands prudence and work. In my view, this is a good thing. If it is done quickly, it will be a very good step. Talking about the use of AI, he said that with the help of face recognition cameras, a person's face, helmet, seat belt, car number and colour can be obtained. So that whatever legal action needs to be taken, can be taken from him. There is an urgent need to be strict, otherwise we will not be able to stop the increasing rate of accidents. Dr. Kanabar also says that there is nothing better than automatic deduction of e-challan money from a bank account or salary, just as money is deducted directly at the toll booth. Whether this can be done legally or not is a matter of investigation. This amendment in the Motor Vehicle Act should be brought at the earliest. So that the lives of two and a half lakh people who die in road accidents every year are prevented." "One of my suggestions is that if people see someone violating the rules on the road and send a video to the police, then a fine should be imposed on the basis of that. The person who sends the video should be given 15%, 25% or 30% of the amount as an incentive. This will make people help the police through mobile at no cost. As far as I know, such a system has been set up in Pune, Maharashtra, which should be studied and set up here as well." Shocking claim about Ahmedabad rickshaw drivers Saying that if a person does not pay the e-challan, punitive action like cancellation or suspension of the license can be taken, he said, "You will be surprised to know that there are 1.5 to 2 lakh rickshaws in Ahmedabad, but 12 to 15% of them do not have a license. The police also stop them only when a crime is committed. We have made very good laws here, but the main problem is enforcement. We have not been able to make a difference in the four main things that we have been working on for the last 60 years: education, engineering, enforcement and emergency services. Now with the help of the following graphics, take a look at the rules abroad. According to experts, the laws are strong on paper, but the real need is to strictly enforce them and prevent innocent deaths in road accidents. It is prudent to fill the e-challan on time and follow traffic rules to avoid the problem of vehicle seizure.