{"id":47074,"date":"2024-09-02T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=47074"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:50:36","slug":"karachi-traffic-fines-hit-rs-1-2-billion-in-year-2023-24-details-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/karachi-traffic-fines-hit-rs-1-2-billion-in-year-2023-24-details-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Karachi traffic fines hit Rs 1.2 billion in year 2023-24, Details inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: A recent report reveals that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/well-accident-claims-three-lives-in-karachi-community-outrages-over-rescue-failure\/\">Karachi traffic police<\/a> have collected a staggering Rs 1.2 billion in fines over the past year, issuing over two million traffic tickets between July 2023 and July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This translates to a daily average of Rs 3.5 million in fines. While <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-police-thwarts-terrorist-attack-on-mianwali-check-post\/\">Sindh&#8217;s Inspector General of Police,<\/a> Ghulam Nabi Memon, emphasizes that the traffic police should not be seen as a revenue-generating body, the data suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Rs 1.19 billion of the total fines has been paid, leaving Rs 100 million owed by 114,142 violators. The traffic police are allocated 30% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/prize-bond-schedule-for-september-2024-complete-list-inside\/\">challan amount<\/a>, equivalent to Rs 360 million, but have not received their share in four to five years.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Deputy Inspector General of Traffic Ahmed Nawaz Cheema explains that 15% of this allocation is reserved for officer rewards, while the rest is for equipment purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Cheema highlights that the police focus on issuing challans for moving violations, such as wrong-way driving and traffic light violations, following directives from the IGP and Karachi Police Chief Javed Odho.<\/p>\n<p>This approach has led to a significant decrease in challan rates. However, Senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Farooq Sattar criticizes the situation, arguing that Karachi&#8217;s substantial tax contributions are not being adequately utilized to address the city&#8217;s challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: A recent report reveals that the Karachi traffic police have collected a staggering Rs 1.2 billion in fines over the past year, issuing over two million traffic tickets between July 2023 and July 2024. This translates to a daily average of Rs 3.5 million in fines. While Sindh&#8217;s Inspector General of Police, Ghulam Nabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21165,13823,21164,21166],"class_list":["post-47074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-indhs-inspector-general-of-police","tag-karachi-traffic-police","tag-senior-muttahida-qaumi-movement-pakistan","tag-traffic-fine-hits-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47081,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47074\/revisions\/47081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}