Uttarakhand

• 11 May 2023

CM launches Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPR)

Why in News?

On 9 May 2023, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inaugurated the Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPR) prepared by the Transport Department from the Secretariat.

Key Points:

• The automatic number plate recognition system will facilitate compliance with traffic rules and online monitoring of tax evasion cases on major roads of the state.
• Installation of ANPR cameras will also help GST & other departments and prevention of tax evasion will also be possible through this. With this, there will be freedom from jams at check posts and traffic will also be easy. Along with this, the introduction of this system will also help in preventing vehicle accidents.
• Secretary Transport Arvind Singh Hayanki informed through a presentation that by amending the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, arrangements have been made for electronic monitoring of vehicles by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India.
• All the check posts established on the state border in Uttarakhand have been abolished. In order to implement the electronic monitoring system in the state, in the first phase, ANPR will be started on the state border. A plan has been made to set up for which an amount of Rs 4.61 crore has been sanctioned from the State Road Safety Fund.
• Uttarakhand Transport Secretary informed that under this scheme, the process of integration has been started to make the data received from the ANPR portal available to the GST department, while other departments – mining, excise, tourism, urban development, Integration with Forest Department and Police are also proposed so that the data obtained through a single medium can be used by all the concerned departments.
• This system has been made fully automated, for which the software prepared for ANPR cameras has been integrated with VAHAN Portal and E-Challan Portal. With this, challans will be automatically generated on the basis of the number plate of the vehicle, in which there will be no human intervention.