Mumbai Traffic Police To Pay Home Visits To Recover Pending Challans
On the other hand, many residents paid the challan but alleged that it was not their fault as their building does not have a parking space, forcing them to park on the street
Mumbai: The Mumbai Traffic Police has started an initiative wherein the officials will visit the homes of violators to recover the pending e-challan payments.
The campaign launched on Tuesday has shown positive results as the violators are cooperating and agree to pay. The aim of this campaign is to collect fines of hundreds of crores.
As of now, a fine of at least over Rs 400 crore is pending against him and 25 teams of two constables have been formed to recover the outstanding fine through the door-to-door tour.
The police have also compiled a list of over 25,000 people in the city who have committed the most violations and imposed a fine of over Rs 10,000 each.
Special training has been given to the traffic police to carry out this campaign. They have been trained to approach and talk to violators where one constable will engage in talking and the other will have a body camera to record it.
Meetings were held on the issue, with several violators refusing to pay challans and breaking rules regularly. The police are also calling those who break the rules regarding the dues.
The drive began in November 2020, where the police were looking at hiring a recovery agent to recover the dues. However, experts were not in favor of this idea. The police also reached the RTO office to cancel the license of the violators.
Joint Commissioner of Police (traffic) Yashasvi Yadav said, “People who violate traffic rules are fined, but they do not pay up and continue to break rules. We appeal to the people to follow traffic rules. If traffic police come to your house to collect fines, then cooperate with them,” as quoted by mid-day.
Prafulla Patil, one of the constables, met at least six residents of south Mumbai. When one of the violators questioned him, he presented a receipt with the card number and other details of the violator after which the violator agreed to pay.
On the other hand, many residents paid the challan but alleged that it was not their fault as their building does not have a parking space, forcing them to park on the street.
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