Traffic Police Issue 39,939 Challans in a Week

GURUGRAM: Traffic police issued 39,939 challans and imposed fines of more than Rs 3.19 crore on violators during the past week, according to department figures released on Monday.

Of those tickets, 16,655 came from on-ground enforcement and 23,284 from camera systems. On-ground action alone accounted for fines totalling Rs 3,19,65,600.

Where the tickets went

On-ground counts included 1,086 wrong-side driving cases, 1,319 lane-change violations, 1,130 drivers without helmets, 792 pillion riders without helmets, 919 wrong parking cases, 386 drunk driving cases, 286 seat-belt violations, 228 triple riding cases, 88 dangerous U-turns, 89 road-marking offences, 63 noise pollution cases, 32 mobile phone use while driving cases and five over-speeding tickets.

Camera enforcement was dominated by lane-change violations (15,513), followed by 4,522 no-entry cases, 888 over-speeding detections, 950 driver seat-belt tickets, 788 pollution-related challans, 199 pillion riders without helmets, 130 front-passenger seat-belt cases, 120 triple riding cases and 101 drivers without helmets.

Officials said enforcement has been intensified on NH-48, the Dwarka Expressway and the Mumbai Expressway, using NHAI cameras and drone support against lane-change and over-speeding. Under the "Challan Nahi Salam Milega" campaign, awareness programmes were also run at 14 locations through the Safety Rath.

The week's numbers sit alongside earlier September drives that separately highlighted drunk driving and mobile-phone use at the wheel. Lane discipline on expressways remains the largest single category in both on-ground and camera lists. For daily road users, that means denser checking on corridors that already carry heavy morning and evening loads.

Drunk driving (386 on-ground cases in the week) and mobile-phone use (32 on-ground) remain smaller slices of the ledger than lane and helmet offences, yet they carry higher crash risk in police messaging. Camera teams still log far more lane-change tickets than beat staff can write by hand, which is why expressway corridors with NHAI feeds dominate the automated count.

Wrong-side driving and no-entry violations continue to cluster near service-lane cuts and market edges where motorists treat one-way markings as optional. Helmet and seat-belt numbers show that basic protective-gear rules are still breached in four-figure weekly counts even after years of campaigns.

Police framed the tally as part of a push to improve road discipline and cut accidents. Whether the fine total translates into fewer crashes will show in later monthly accident data. The Safety Rath stops under the "Challan Nahi Salam Milega" slogan are meant to soften the public mood around enforcement, but the week's arithmetic is blunt: nearly forty thousand challans, cameras ahead on volume, and more than Rs 3.19 crore booked from on-ground fines alone.