Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government, in its crack down on vehicles without a fitness certificate, tax payment and valid documents, will launch the e-detection system of the transport department at all the highway toll gates from Thursday. Chhattisgarh is the second state after Odisha to introduce this system.
As per sample data collected from toll gates on the national highways, it was observed that a substantial number of vehicles are plying without valid documents.
In order to detect such vehicles plying through national highways in Chhattisgarh, the transport department has developed the e-detection portal in collaboration with the NIC, said transport commissioner Dipanshu Kabra.
The main objective of the e-detection portal is to collect data from various toll gates on national highways and find out the validity of the vehicles using the e-portal. In the first phase, toll gates on national highways have been integrated with the e-detection portal. The service will be extended to mining and industrial areas of the state, said the transport commissioner.
The data will be collected in accordance with the data fetched through the FASTag and images captured when a vehicle passes through a toll gate. The e-detection portal will automatically E-challan any vehicle that is plying without valid legally required documents.
Kabra has urged vehicle owners to keep their vehicle documents up-to-date to avoid penalties for fitness, tax, insurance, and PUC.
Meanwhile, the state government is contemplating over developing a policy guideline following the recommendation of the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety (SCCoRS).
Recently, the secretary of the Committee, Sanjay Mital, visited some districts and reviewed corrective measures initiated to reduce road fatalities in the state, which has been a priority of the state government, he said.
Assistant transport commissioner Shailabh Sahu, while stating one of the salient features of this e-detection system, said, “We can find out stolen vehicles in certain cases through this system. If a stolen four-wheeler is bearing the registration number of a truck or bogus number, it will be detected by our system. We will put such vehicles in the suspicious category and take necessary action.”
