Summary:
PANAJI: The Traffic Sentinel app seems to have become an instant hit among Goans. The app lets users directly send violations to the traffic cell, and a challan is automatically issued to the violators.The mobile app was developed by Goe Electronics Limited (GEL) at a cost of over Rs 20 lakh.The traffic sentinel scheme has been running since November 10, 2017. For the first one year, citizens clicked photographs of traffic violators on their mobile phones and sent them to traffic police through a registered WhatsApp number. Two days after its launch, it has already been downloaded by 1,500 sentinels. To encourage more citizens to use it, they were given cash rewards..