Summary:
- Advertisement -The renewed crackdown is made in a bid to generate revenue for the state government as the e-challan defaulters' amount goes as high as Rs 280 crores said an official. Mumbai Traffic Police will now report those who refuse to clear the pending fines to the Regional Transport Office (RTO) that could result in the violator losing their driving license. After lockdown which imposed travel and movement restrictions however the crackdown on e-challan recovery further went away causing a major backlog. The e-challan system introduced in the city three years ago had bid adieu to the manual clamp down on traffic violators and was sent an e-challan instead on their registered mobile number. As the e-challan amounts kept on increasing only one-third of the violators ended up paying the fines while the others just ignored it..