what is an e-challan, how it electronically works and know all details about it.

What is an e-challan?

The e-challan is an electronically generated document, usually used for vehicles to violating traffic rules and regulations. The e-challan also makes a real-time entry into the traffic police server. It has replaced the physical pieces of paper and all processes use online. E-challan is an initiative by the Ministry of Road and Transport, Government of India with the concept of digitisation, negated the bribing process to provide transparent and seamless service to people.

How e-challan works?

Earlier, traffic police showed their hand to the driver and saw all the documents, then wrote the invoice on a piece of paper when violating the rule. E-challan made traffic police jobs easy along people life prevent trouble. Here we talk about how it works.

If someone breaks the traffic rules and escapes or tries to escape then, the traffic police click a photo of the rule violator with the vehicle. The photo uploaded and fetching all details of traffic rules violator by the challan app which is in the traffic police smartphone. The app is developed by NIC (National Informatics Center) and it fetched all data from sarthi.parivahan.gov.in and vahan.parivahan.gov.in. All details are on the app like Name, Phone number, Chassis number, engine number and everything happens. After inserted the photo on the app, the invoice made by following fact procedures and send the invoice of e challan directly to the rule violator and payment can pay online. The biggest thing was that earlier policemen stop the vehicle by hand and saw the license, papers of a vehicle and made challan. As long as one challan was made, the situation of jam would have become. But now no one can make such an allegation.

Also, the traffic police have introduced the CCTV enable e-challan system in signal point to monitor the traffic rule violator. CCTV camera continuously records footage of ongoing traffic and the police easily detect the rule violator. From the CCTV footage the police extract the vehicle number and e-challan will be registered in the records.

How to pay e-challan payment online?

Visit https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan of the e-challan portal.
Enter your Challan number or Vehicle number.
Enter your unique captcha code and click ‘GET DETAIL’.
Proceed with payment by entering your debit or credit card details.
You can also make an e-challan payment via Paytm.
You will receive an SMS confirming your challan payment, after complete the payment.

Note: If you do not want to pay online, you can pay traffic e-challan at the nearest traffic police station in your area.

How to check your e-challan payment status?

Visit https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan of the e-challan portal.
Enter your e-challan number or Vehicle number.
Enter your unique captcha code and click ‘GET DETAIL’.
On the lower side of the page will be showing your e-challan details.

What to do for wrong e-challan?

For wrong e-challan, you can lodge a complaint or raise a ticket at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/ and follow the steps.

Enter your Name, Phone number, e-challan number, Vehicle/DL number, challan state must carefully.
Enter State and location.
Upload an image about your issue.
Enter your unique captcha code and click ‘Submit’ for your ticket.

How to check your complaint or ticket status?

You can check the status of your complaint or ticket at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/search by entering your E-Ticket number.

Advantage and disadvantages of e-challan:─

The new e-challan process comes with paperless and time-saving.
In the age of the internet, payment paid online.
The new e-challan system does not require physical documents.
In the absence of a vehicle owner or due to human error, if just one number of vehicles misplace then the challan may be wrong.
In the absence of a vehicle owner or due to insufficient data, the e-challan may not reach the owner.

How you can avoid the e-challan?