Rajkot: The biggest nemesis of vehicle owners is van crane! Find where the vehicle drawn has been taken, happens to be the worst dream, which, will be much more smooth now if everything happens as expected.
Rajkot police from next month will implement a software-based system, which will send an SMS to the vehicle owner to remind them of their vehicle withdrawn.
Traffic police make your own database with a vehicle owner’s cellphone number.
While the Rajkot traffic police moved towards a smooth system without paper, it also made its own database on the history of vehicle owners during this shift process.
Generally RTO keeps a note of vehicle owners and in new vehicles purchased now the cellphone number is available.
The police use the database, but for older vehicles they are preparing a database from the vehicle that goes into the system during a traffic check drive or violation of traffic rules.
Based on this data, the vehicle owner will be sent an SMS alert every time the traffic police destroys the vehicle.
The police entered the vehicle registration number data into a cellular application that produced Challan messages and warnings for vehicle owners.
This mobile app is exclusively prepared for paper without paper traffic.
Deputy Police Commissioner, Zona-1 Praveen Kumar said, “This will help the owner find vehicles easily and they can come to the place, pay a fine and get the vehicle released.
Vehicle owners can pay by scanning the UPI code and paying online.
They will also Getting an SMS alert from the amount paid.
“Traffic Police Rajkot currently has a 20 crane fleet, where four are used for four wheels.
City police plan to increase cranes for four wheels in the near future.
At present around 65 to 70 vehicles are drawn every day, which is less than the pre-covid period of almost 120 vehicles per day.
The main areas are crowded from which vehicles are drawn including Sadhu Vasvani Road, KKV Chowk at Kalavad Road, Trikon Baug, Dhebar Road, Yagnik Road and Racecourse.
Environmentally friendly handwriting receipts for payment of fine has become a passé, right now.
Head of the Rajkot Traffic Police Head tasked only entering the vehicle registration number and the details of the owner and a type of violation in the newly prepared cellular application to produce e-challan.
The vehicle owner gets Challhan and after online payment will receive an SMS alert.
This new system that has been implemented from May 1, has produced around 18,000 Challans so far and a fine of RS 45 Lakh is collected.
“We are now 99 percent without paper.
We give one book acceptance to the police inspector if necessary but the amount of physical acceptance in one digit now.” Said Police Commissioner Manoj Agrawal Rajkot.