3 of four traffic violators in state didn’t pay fine in Jan: Data | Nagpur News – Times of India

Nagpur: Over 74% of traffic violators in Maharashtra have not paid fine. Of the 15,28,679 motorists penalized for violations of various traffic rules across the state in January, only 3,17,744 paid up, according to official figures.
Violators from western Maharashtra comprising Pune city/rural, Ratnagiri, Kolhapur, Mumbai city, Mumbai traffic police, Thane city/rural, Nashik city/rural, Navi Mumbai and Palghar are worst when it comes to paying fines, the data revealed. Of the 10.76 lakh challans issued, only 1.68 lakh violators cleared their pending challans, while the police are struggling to recover dues from 9.08 lakh violators, reveals the data of paid and unpaid fines of 46 city and rural police stations prepared by the office of director general of police in Mumbai.
However, motorists from Vidarbha region including Yavatmal, Buldhana, Amravati, Nagpur, Gondia can be considered relatively more sincere. Of the 1.59 lakh challans issued in these areas, over 1 lakh violators paid up. The statistics reveal Nagpur rural police tops the list in recovering fines. Hingoli and Mumbai police stand last and second last respectively.
Nagpur rural police had issued 6,197 online challans across the district. Of these, the rural police led by Rakesh Ola succeeded in recovering unpaid dues from 6,073 violators or nearly 98%.
The recovery rate of unpaid fine in Gondia and Yavatmal districts stood at 96%. Of the 10,152 challans issued, the Yavatmal police succeeded in recovering pending fines from 9,787 violators. Similarly, Gondia police issued 2,321 online challans of which it succeeded in recovering fines from 2,224 motorists. In Vidarbha Washim district is worst performer with just 8.5% of 17,000 violators paying the fine.
Nagpur city traffic police too fared well in recovering fines from the violators. As per the statistics, the traffic police issued 67,612 challans and recovered dues from 53,904 motorists. The traffic police led by DCP Sarang Awad has also launched Smart nakabandi, which resulted in improving recovery of unpaid challans.
Mumbai Traffic police have issued 4.92 lakh online challans. Of these, it managed to collect dues from only 54,338 or about 11%violators, while 4,38,206 motorists haven’t paid up. Similar is the situation with highway police. It issued over 1.57 lakh online challans to violators of which only 19,259 paid the fines.
Total challans issued:-15,28,679
Fines paid by :- 3,17,744
Unpaid fines:- 12,10,935
Police stations—Paid challans—Unpaid challans
Nagpur Rural—6,073—124
Mumbai police—1,849— 41,729
Mumbai Traffic—54,338— 4,38,206
Nagpur C—53,904—13,708
Highway Police—19,259—1,38,543
Bhandara—2,122—2,447
Buldhana—1,741—3,649
Chandrapur—4,057—4,648
Gadchiroli—974—451
Gondia—2,224—97
Pimpri C—10,059—80,157
Pune C—46,290—61,737
Pune R—2,254—20,317
Thane C—11,567—57,872
Thane R—2,151—12,253
Wardha—2,738—1,929
Washim—1,447—15,554
Yavatmal—9,798—365