Mohali traffic under CCTV glare

Tribune News Service

Mohali, March 6

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann today inaugurated Phase I of the city surveillance and traffic management system developed at a cost of Rs 21.60 crore.

The Chief Minister said this state-of-the-art system was aimed at improving public safety, curbing traffic violations and ensuring effective law enforcement through advanced AI-based surveillance and traffic-monitoring. The Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at Sector 79 here will get live feed from 351 high-resolution CCTV cameras operational at 17 critical junctions across the city.

On an average, the system generates from 5,000 to 6,000 challans per day.

It includes 175 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras, 50 red light violation detection (RLVD) units, 92 bullet cameras for general surveillance, 18 pan, tilt and zoom cameras for enhanced monitoring. Besides, the speed violation detection system has been installed at two key locations with 16 cameras. The key feature of this initiative is the automated e-challan system,

seamlessly integrated with NIC’s Vahan and Sarathi databases.

The Chief Minister said the system enabled the automatic generation of e-challans for violations such as red-light jumping, overspeeding, triple riding, wrong-side driving, helmet-less riding and stop line/zebra crossing. Now, the Punjab Government is planning Phase II of the project covering additional locations across the district.

The Chief Minister said unified traffic corridors would also be created, ensuring smoother transit across Mohali, Kharar, Zirakpur and Dera Bassi.

1,150 e-challans generated on Day 1

As many as 1,150 e-challans were generated by the system on Thursday, said the police. Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar are

the next cities to have this system soon.

17 locations being monitored

Chawla Chowk, Phase 3-5 crossing, Micro Tower Phase-2-3A crossing, Max Hospital, Sunny Enclave, IISER Chowk, Airport Chowk, Cheema Boiler Chowk, Landran T-point, Sector 105-106 road, Dairi T-point, Purab Apartment crossing in Sector 89, Sector 90/Phase-8 T-point, Phase 7 crossing, near TDI/Gilco gate, Franco light point and Airport Road-Zirakpur road.