The Ministry of Road Transport has made video footage mandatory for challaning to ensure strict adherence to traffic rules. Notification has been issued to install digital equipment for video footage on highways, intersections, redlights.
For breaking the traffic rules, the traffic police will not be able to send the challan to the driver of the vehicle by simply taking a photo. The Ministry of Road Transport has changed the rules to ensure strict adherence to traffic rules. Now the police will have to make footage ie recording mandatory to challan the driver who breaks the traffic rules. For this, the transport department and state police will install digital devices at intersections, roads and highways. The Ministry of Road Transport has identified 132 cities in the country, where traffic rules will be strictly followed by installing digital equipment.
At present, the traffic police sends a challan by taking a photo from the camera for violating several categories of traffic rules. In this, many times the owner of the vehicle breaking the traffic rules tries to prove the police wrong. It says not to break the rules, thus the time of the police and the court is wasted. But after the new notification, the police will have to take footage i.e. video for breaking certain categories of traffic rules. Which will be presented as evidence in the court. In this way the video will be clear in the footage itself. Due to which the owner of the vehicle will not be able to prove himself innocent. The Ministry of Road Transport has issued a notification to the states regarding electronic monitoring and enforcement of road safety. Under this, cameras will be installed at intersections, highways, roads, redlights and bodies of soldiers.
Digital equipment will be installed in 132 cities of these states
17 cities including Kanpur, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, 7 cities including Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, 5 cities including Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota in Rajasthan, 19 cities including Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Nagpur in Maharashtra, 3 cities including Ranchi, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, 4 cities including Surat, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Patna in Bihar, 3 cities including Gaya, Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab , Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal will have digital devices in 132 cities.
Recording mandatory for breaking such traffic rules
- Over speeding
- Parking the car in the wrong place
- Violation of the rules by the driver or riding in the back seat
- Not wearing a helmet
- Jumping red light, using mobile while driving
- Overloading
- Not wearing seat belt
- Carriage of goods
- Number plate defective or hidden
- Carriage rear or both sides
