3rdEye relaunch yet to take off

August 16, 2013

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Aditya Dev, TNN |

GURGAON: The two ambitious projects of Gurgaon traffic police — e-challaning and 3rdEye — to revamp the way challaning drives are conducted in the city, are yet to take off.While the e-challaning drive failed to cross the pilot phase, not once but twice, monetary and technical issues are bugging the 3rdEye project, due to which it has been lying cold storage for over one and a half years. It was first launched in August 2011.

The department had written to the state government to seek its approval for budgetary grant for the projects.

Joint commissioner of police (traffic) Bharti Arora said, “The projects are under process. The e-challaning project required monetary provision to buy equipments. We have written to the government. The permission might come in two-three months.”

“We are also looking into ways to restart 3rdEye,” Arora added.

Traffic police had conducted trial runs for e-challaning for the second time in June this year. With the e-challaning project, the traffic police wanted to replace the manual challaning. Under e-challaning, with the help of an electronic device, offenders would not only be given on-the-spot challan receipt, but would also be awarded enhanced fines if found to be repeat offenders.

During the trial runs, four cops were given the devices while a trainer conducted their classes. According to a source, the outcomes of the trial run were not that encouraging as there was marginal increase in number of challans issued with the help of the devices.

This was the second time the Gurgaon police conducted the trial run of e-challaning.

Source-http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com