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E-Monitoring Laws: Supreme Court To Amend The Laws For The Prevention Of Any Casualties

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Sharmistha Suman
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Four years ago, a law was introduced that permitted the e-monitoring of roads as well as highways to avoid casualties and accidents. Now, the government of the Supreme Court has realized that the rule has many chuckholes and it needs to be fixed up. 

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The biggest weakness in the execution of Section 136A i.e, e-monitoring and enforcement of road safety under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 are essential to its victory and survival, to ensure that the guilty vehicle owners pay the traffic fines released through e-challans. 

The Majority Doesn't Pay E-Challan

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Statistics given to the Bench led by the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on April 6 demonstrated that just a minimum of 7.61% challaned electronically have taken the responsibility of paying the fine since the last four years till March 10, 2023. 

About 3.98 crores of total e-challans were sent out in this duration in smart cities over the country. When calculated, the total challans were priced at Rs 3,877.36 crores representing many traffic violations.  

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Although, the authorities have only been capable of collecting Rs 295.26 crores. The total amount of traffic fines that remained uncollected stands at Rs 3,582.1 crore. 

What Does The Petition Say?

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“The impact of the complete exercise of e-monitoring along with e-challans is somehow minimized by acknowledgedly less revival of electronic challan worth, which was in reality intended to discourage the vehicle owners from doing breach of traffic rules, ” Kishan Chand Jain wrote in his petition. 

The government appears to have engaged in action right now, a report filed by the Supreme Court Committee regarding Road Safety by Gaurav Agrawal states.

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The Committee Report

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The committee report writes that the Ministry has intended to regulate the national guidelines regarding hardware and software so that there is equality in the nation taking the modalities for executing Section 136-A of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988.

On April 7, the court acknowledged the suggestion to ask the National Crime Records Bureau, which has good experience in functioning various federal databases as well as managing information with states. 

Along with this, preparing a concept paper on the modalities of execution of a national launch of a successful and time-limited e-enforcement mechanism under Section 136A to minimize casualties and accidents. 

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The Auto E-Challan Appeal

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The court ordered this proceeding to be wrapped up by August 7, 2023. The Bench gave Mr. Jain the freedom to make his suggestion or advice before the government.

One of his appeals is to execute a system of auto e-challans without any involvement of humans in accordance with feeds seized by e-monitoring devices.