Rs 1.97 crore fine collected for traffic rules violations in 2024
Adding Rs 1.97 crore to the state exchequer, the city police commissionerate issued 40,059 challans to offenders under various traffic violations in the year 2024.
As per data, maximum challans were issued to wrongly parked vehicles in the holy city closely followed by residents driving without mandatory safety headgear.
Frequent traffic snarls in the city have been an order of the day, while the district administration and the police authorities are found to be wanting.
As per details procured by The Tribune, as many as 16,007 challans were issued for wrong parking of vehicles. Wrong parking is a bane of the city. Because of lack of parking spaces, people park their vehicles on roadsides which further aggravates traffic congestion in the city. Apart from this, 2,123 wrongly parked vehicles were towed away by the traffic police.
The second most traffic rule violated by city residents was driving without helmets. The traffic police challaned 6,500 violators under this category. Besides, the police also challaned 1,797 people riding pillion on two-wheelers while not wearing necessary safety headgear.
Residents also did not lag behind in violating traffic signals. At least 4,698 persons were challaned for the violation under this head. Out of these challans issued, 2,289 were for jumping red light, while the remaining 2,409 were for the violation of the traffic signal.
Challans issued under other categories included 1,783 for driving four-wheelers without safely belts, 1,193 for triple riding on two-wheelers, 1,188 for wrong side driving, 952 for not having pollution certificate, 873 for using mobile phones while driving, 845 for putting black films beyond permissible limits on windscreens of four-wheelers and 661 for vehicles without proper number plates.
Police Commissioner (CP) Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said the education cell of the traffic police had been holding camps at schools and other places to make students and young people aware about traffic norms.
