Traffic police set to roll out e-challan system

Pilot projects implemented in five cities

LAHORE:

The traffic police have decided to replace the manual challan books with e-challan to check discrepancies in ticket issuance.

According to sources, Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Asad Ejaz Malhi will announce the launch of the modern system on Tuesday.

The department had started working on the replacement of the manual challan books in February. The master plan was envisaged about six years back as part of the Intelligent Traffic Management System. Under the plan, manual management of traffic was to be replaced by technology.

In previous months, the e-challan system was introduced in some sectors of Lahore on a trial basis.

The pilot projects had been expanded to five cities of Punjab a few weeks back.

After gradual success of the project trial, it is going to be expanded throughout the provincial capital.

Under the new arrangement, each e-challan book will have a Payment Slip Identification (PSID) code that will be linked to an online system. Each book will contain 50 traffic violation tickets in triplicate. The leaves will be of white, pink and yellow colours.

The violations will be enlisted on back of each leaf as per the Motor Vehicles Ordinance Rules of 1969 in Urdu. The first six digits of the PSID code will carry the challan book number, including a two-digit district code. The next digits are related to the leave number in the challan book.

At the end of the PSID number will be four empty boxes, wherein the amount of fine imposed would be could be entered by the official issuing the ticket.

Below the PSID number, spaces have been left for the name of the traffic sector, date and time of the offence, offender’s name and address, registration number of the vehicle, violation code, type of document seized and the amount of fine imposed.

It will also be noted if the offender is declared guilty by a court over not paying fine within 10 days.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 15^th, 2022..