A challan is an official paper that is issue to the motor vehicle driver who violates the traffic rules and regulations in India. When a traffic challan is being issue in your name. It implies that you are responsible to pay the penalty depending on the type of offence made by you as per the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The traffic police department is having the right to issue a challan to any driver. Who does not follow the traffic rulebooks while driving.
What is E-Challan ?
Since everything is on an electronic platform, the concept of e- challan system has been introduce. A vehicle e challan is a computer-generated challan used by the Traffic Police and is being issued to all the traffic defaulters in India. The Government of India has initiated this process to make the traffic services convenient, easy as well as transparent to the general public.
Also, with e- challan system effective and strong monitoring of the traffic violators becomes easy for the traffic police. In the age of digitalization, traffic defaulters will be able to now pay e-challan either online or offline. Depending on the facility given by their city or state. E- challan system has been introduce to avoid cash transactions so that everything is very clear and transparent. The government of India has also introduced Traffic eChallan. Which is an application and is combine with web portal applications which are namely Vahan and Sarathi.
How E-Challan system work in India?
The traffic police have introduced the CCTV-enabled e-Challan system in an attempt to eventually curb the rising number of road accidents in India. A CCTV camera continuously records footage of the ongoing traffic. If a motorist breaks any traffic rule, the act will be recorded in the footage. The police will try to extract the number from the vehicle’s screen. Photo capture from the CCTV footage and the offense will be register in the records.
The traffic police will be then coordinate with the RTO to find the details of the vehicle and its owner. Details like the name and address of the vehicle owner, make and model of the vehicle, etc. As soon as they receive the details, an SMS will be sent on the registered phone number of the violator. This SMS will contain the time, date and location of the offense.
5 ways to avoid E-Challan
The best way in which you can avoid getting an e-Challan issue in your name is to follow all the traffic rules at all times.
1) Follow lane discipline, traffic signals, ensure safety – wear helmets or seat belt. And do not go over the prescribed speed limit.
2)Ensure physical safety by following rules and financial safety with the help of vehicle insurance.
3)Always go for comprehensive coverage and customize the policy with Add-ons.
4)Do not anyone else decides which policy you should buy.
5)Do your research and select the most suitable insurance plan. Ride safe, avoid challans.
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