Hyderabad traffic challans discount: Rs 5.5 cr collected in one day

Hyderabad: On the first day of the discounted rates on traffic challans the police department has collected over Rs 5.5 crores, as a large number of people cleared their fines. There was tremendous response by the public, over the clearance of pending challans at a discount on Tuesday.
As of now about Rs 5 lakhs challans were cleared. While the total pending challans amout to about Rs 20 crores, the amount collected is over Rs 5.5 crores in a single day.
After the website witnessed glitches due to increased traffic, the police had to increase the bandwidth of the server and necessary infrastructure for this special drive by 10 times, however, the system is running slow due to the large amounts of people accessing the Telangana E challan website.
The technical team aims to further scale it up to meet the increasing demand. 80 percent of the challans cleared today pertain to the Tri commissionerates of Hyderabad city.
“We request the public not to be in a hurry to clear the challans as we have given one month March 1 to 31, me for this scheme” said a senior traffic police official.
The police department had announced huge discounts for the traffic violators and urged them to clear their pending challan.
The percentage of discount varied for different vehicles. The penal amount of Rs 1000 imposed on the violators of COVID-19 protocols was also reduced to Rs 100 for the violators by the Police department.