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RTC fails to cough up 100crore to cops
While the City Traffic Police has been patting itself on its back for its prompt collection of e-challans issued to the general public, the Road Transport Corporation (RTC) has been playing spoilsport and is denting the revenues accounted for traffic violations. The Corporation owes over Rs 100 crore to the police.
TRAFFIC RULE VIOLATIONS
- Public transport provider has not cleared its dues since 2008
City Traffic Police to approach the government and seek settlement of the issue
Hyderabad: While the City Traffic Police has been patting itself on its back for its prompt collection of e-challans issued to the general public, the Road Transport Corporation (RTC) has been playing spoilsport and is denting the revenues accounted for traffic violations. The Corporation owes over Rs 100 crore to the police.
“Filing of charge sheets and imprisonments handed out by the courts for motorists who have not paid challans for a long time, has pushed the public to become prompt for the payment of penalties. But officials of the RTC seem to be least bothered in payment of their dues,” rued a police officer.
According to data available with the traffic police, a total of Rs 100 crore in the form of penalty has to be collected from the RTC for traffic violations since 2008. This is apart from Rs 2.87 crore which the RTC owes for its preceding years.
In 2013, the police collected Rs 46.54 crore as penalties from 32.32 lakh cases including e-challan cases, but over 76 per cent of this payment was done instantly during ‘contact’ enforcement. In 2014, the police collected over Rs 24.7 crore through contact enforcement and Rs 11.67 crore through e-challans.
“After implementation of friendly policing in traffic management this year, over Rs 16 crore was collected from e-challans. This shows the acceptance of public for non-contact enforcement,” said a Hyderabad Traffic Police officer. He added that the number of challans paid has increased from 2,000 to 8,000 on an average per day. But the RTC has paid no heed to clear its dues.
“We assured the Corporation officials that old challans would be cancelled and asked them to pay the challans issued in the past three years. We have been sending notices to the RTC officials regularly to clear their dues but unfortunately their response has been poor so far,” the officer said. He added that the government would be approached soon to force the RTC to clear its dues.
By Jayendra Chaithanya T
