Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) introduced an online portal for PSCA e-challan system for the ease of public on Saturday.
Citizens can now access the portal at psca.gop.pk and by giving in their vehicle registration and computerised national identity card numbers, they can view and print e-challans, if any is issued to them.
These views were expressed by PSCA Chief Operating Officer Akbar Nasir Khan during media talk held at PSCA Headquarters, on the eve of introducing e-challan web portal.
He added that PSCA has issued 87,000 e-challans so far and the collection of the same amounted up to Rs 11 million in the national exchequer. PSCA has notified Excise & Taxation department about more than 9,000 vehicle records for correction so far.
Since September 23, over 1,000 vehicles have been blacklisted for displaying fake registration numbers and over 100 vehicles detained in police stations for further proceedings. More than 800 e-challans of traffic violation in Lahore have been paid in Bank of Punjab branches across Punjab.
PSCA is poised to include over-speeding and one-way violations in its imminent e-challaning phase. The defaulters of e-challans will be apprehended through ground teams and vehicles will be seized to be released only after settlement of the amounts owed.
Citizens are advised to transfer the ownership within a month of sale or purchase of vehicles. E-challans are sent on addresses preserved in the vehicle registration database of E&T.
Published in Daily Times, October 21st 2018.