Aadhaar Card for Traffic Violations: Thane Police Requests UIDAI to Link it With E-challan System
If Thane Traffic Police has its way, you will soon have to produce your Aadhaar Card if you break any traffic rules next time you are driving.
Mumbai, March 24: If linking your Aadhaar Card to your bank account and SIM card weren’t enough, you might as well have to produce it the next time you are given an e-challan. If Thane Traffic Police has its way, you will soon have to produce your Aadhaar Card if you break any traffic rules next time you are driving.
The buzz around Aadhar Card has refused to douse. In another episode of the Aadhar card saga, the Thane Traffic Police has applied for permission with the concerned authority to link traffic rules offenders' Aadhar card with the e-challan system. The following request is made to recognize those citizens better.
In its request to the issuing authority – Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) – the Thane Traffic Police department has asked to link the Aadhar Card with their e-challan database system.
Talking about the Aadhar Card linkage, a Thane traffic police official, said, “The idea behind linking Aadhaar card is to allow our officer to check and verify the identity of any offender on the spot. Sometimes motorists give fake licenses, but by linking Aadhaar card, we will be able to easily detect this and arrest them.”
Even at the time when there are obscurities surrounding the Aadhar Card; even when the Supreme Court is repeatedly turning down requests from the Central government to make it mandatory, here comes another episode in the entire saga. Whether you will have to produce your Aadhar Card for violating traffic rules is also unclear, as the traffic department hasn’t made it mandatory yet.
As per the e-challan system, the violators are informed by a mobile application – Mumbai Traffic Police (MTP). The e-challan system in Mumbai was launched in the year 2016.
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