Hyderabad: The Hyderabad traffic police have launched a ‘One-time discount’ scheme on pending traffic challans. The scheme will start on 1st March 2022 and will go on till 31st March 2022.
The traffic police department, in a press release on Wednesday, said that the decision was made as a ‘humanitarian gesture’ as people from Hyderabad had faced economic hardships during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the release, 85% of the challans pertain to two-wheelers and autos, which belong to the middle and lower-middle-class of the society.
According to the Rachakonda traffic DCP D Srinivas, the work to provide discounts is in progress and “It will be live on the website soon”.
How do the discounts work?
- One has to log on to the Telangana traffic integrated e-challan portal.
- Enter your vehicle details as usual and here all the challans will be displayed on one side.
- Then, click on pay and you will be redirected to the payment portal where one has to pay only the discounted amount.
- “The sum total of pending challans will be displayed as usual. Just beside it, depending on the kind and model of vehicle, the discounted amount will be available” said DCP Srinivas
Below are the discount proposed as per the category of the vehicle:
- For two-wheelers and autos, if 25% of the challan is paid, the remaining 75% of the pending challans would be waived.
2. For push carts and petty vendors (39b cases), if 20% is paid, the remaining 80% will be waived off.
3. For light motor vehicles (LMVs), cars, jeeps and heavy vehicles, if paid 50% is paid, the remaining 50% will be waived off.
4. For Road Transport Corporation (RTC) drivers, if 30% is paid, the remaining 70% will be waived off.
The discounts are divided according to the category of the vehicle.
For example, if one has to pay 1000 rupees, then they will be required to pay 25% of the amount i.e. 250 rupees. Once the payment is done, the remaining amount will be automatically waived off.
It should be noted that The Hyderabad traffic police amassed 70.3 lakh challans as of December 2021. Most of these are related to overspeeding and not wearing helmets. Out of those charged for over-speeding, only 40% of the challans have been cleared. The other 60% are still pending and have added to other violations in the past eight years. The sum of the total number of challans as of now is Rs 600 crore.
