Lahore Traffic Police chief has asked provincial authorities to block a range of government services for citizens with unpaid digital traffic challans, in a move aimed at tightening enforcement and boosting recovery.
CTO Lahore Abdul Rahim Sherazi has written to the DIG Traffic Punjab requesting that complete details of pending digital challans be added to the One App.
The letter proposes that non payment of digital challans issued by traffic wardens should carry the same consequences as unpaid e-challans, with police services withheld from defaulters until dues are cleared.
Under the proposal, citizens who fail to clear digital challans would be denied identity card issuance, passport processing and driving license services. The restriction would also extend to character certificates and tenancy registration, all of which would remain unavailable at Khidmat Markaz until challans are settled.
The CTO has further recommended that vehicle verification, domicile certificates and birth certificates be issued only after digital challans are cleared, mirroring the conditions already applied to e-challans.
The letter also calls for digital challan records to be linked with NADRA. At present, the One App displays only the number of e-challans issued, with no corresponding record for digital challans. This gap has made recovery difficult, as authorities have no centralized way to track outstanding dues.
To address this, the CTO has asked that complete details of pending digital challans be integrated into the app, which he said would improve the recovery process.
The letter states that linking digital challans with NADRA and restricting services to defaulters is necessary to increase government revenue and strengthen enforcement of traffic laws across the province.
