Traffic Challan Payment: Now if you are found guilty of violating traffic rules by mistake and you have been fined, then you will not need to visit the RTO to pay the fine amount. Rather, you will be able to pay it from your phone while sitting at home. Delhi Transport Department has invented a new system to streamline the payment of traffic fines by sending automated messages directly to the drivers who break traffic rules. However, such a system is being started from Delhi right now.
This will be the process of paying challan from phone
These messages, which will be sent directly to traffic rule violators through automated SMS or WhatsApp by the Delhi Transport Department, will provide detailed information about the violation and instructions on how to make the payment. On clicking the payment option, the message will redirect the user to a payment gateway. Through which they will be able to pay the fine amount easily. The media report quoted a senior official as saying, “As soon as someone clicks on the payment option on WhatsApp, they will be directed to a payment gateway with multiple options, including BHIM UPI.”
What do Transport Department officials say?
Transport department officials say that this system will help the government to increase revenue as many people avoid paying challan online. Some do not even know that they have pending challan. “Since WhatsApp has push message facility, it will keep reminding the person that a challan is pending. It will be similar to using the service for pending payment with a bank or other companies,” the official said. Transport department officials recently met WhatsApp officials in this regard. The department aims to launch this system within the next six months.
Requesting access to invoice database from National Informatics Centre
Transport department officials have requested the National Informatics Centre through the web site to access the challan database which is generated on the site echallan.parivahan.gov.in. Once access is granted, automated message links will be generated to direct users to the e-challan website from time to time regarding pending challan payments, where users will be able to pay any pending challan.
There will be a choice of any platform for making payment from Google Pay and Bhima along with other UPI apps. Apart from this, a push notification will also be sent to the users every time the challan is generated. This initiative is being started because often when the challan is pending, people complain about the challan process of the transport department that they have not received any message related to challan on the registered number. Officials say that challan recovery has actually become a complex problem in front of the department. Because the department does not have the mobile numbers of all the drivers.
