No-honking stickers for traffic violators with postal challans in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 16

With an aim to inculcate discipline among motorists who unnecessarily honk while driving, the UT police have now started sending no-honking stickers with postal traffic challans. The stickers can be pasted on the steering wheels of vehicles.

The traffic police have been sensitising motorists to the importance of not honking for the past two and a half years. The motorists were also administered a pledge to support the campaign in a bid to make the city noise pollution-free.

The police had also distributed stickers among motorists at light points, meant for steering wheels with “I will not honk” written on these.

However, since Covid-19 has applied brakes to such campaigns, the traffic police have started sending these stickers to traffic violators along with postal challans.

The postal challans are sent to traffic violators after the violations are caught on CCTV cameras or pictures of violations are sent on WhastApp or uploaded by people on the Facebook page of the traffic police or on the Twitter account.

A traffic police official said sending the sticker with the challan helped in delivering a message about making the city free of noise pollution caused by unnecessary honking.

Honking is already prohibited near the Sector 1 Capitol Complex, the PGI, Sector 12, Panjab University, Sector 14, and on roads near hospitals and educational institutes.