Only Hindi and English; no Tamil in traffic challans in Chennai
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:3.11.2019
In June, more than two months before Union home minister Amith Shah sparked a controversy by saying Hindi should be the national language, traffic violators in Chennai began getting payment receipts in English and Hindi. There was nothing in Tamil in the National Informatics Centre-developed receipt.
On September 14, speaking at the Hindi Diwas celebrations in New Delhi, Amit Shah emphasised the need to make Hindi the country’s common language. It was necessary, he said, to have a language that could represent India in the world. The remark triggered widespread condemnation, with the M K Stalin-led DMK threatening agitations against the plan to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states. Shah later said he had never asked for imposition of Hindi anywhere in the country but only advocated its use as the second language.
In Chennai, the receipts for traffic violations continue to be spewed out in English and Hindi. A traffic police officer said they have been issuing these receipts since June. After the traffic police introduced contactless traffic violations payment system, they have been monitoring the Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras installed in Anna Nagar and few other places. These cameras can detect any traffic violation, capture a photograph of the violator and send photographs with details of the offence to the traffic police control room.
The photographs and the challan are dispatched to the residences of the offenders whose details are got from the RTO office headquarters.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:3.11.2019
In June, more than two months before Union home minister Amith Shah sparked a controversy by saying Hindi should be the national language, traffic violators in Chennai began getting payment receipts in English and Hindi. There was nothing in Tamil in the National Informatics Centre-developed receipt.
On September 14, speaking at the Hindi Diwas celebrations in New Delhi, Amit Shah emphasised the need to make Hindi the country’s common language. It was necessary, he said, to have a language that could represent India in the world. The remark triggered widespread condemnation, with the M K Stalin-led DMK threatening agitations against the plan to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states. Shah later said he had never asked for imposition of Hindi anywhere in the country but only advocated its use as the second language.
In Chennai, the receipts for traffic violations continue to be spewed out in English and Hindi. A traffic police officer said they have been issuing these receipts since June. After the traffic police introduced contactless traffic violations payment system, they have been monitoring the Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras installed in Anna Nagar and few other places. These cameras can detect any traffic violation, capture a photograph of the violator and send photographs with details of the offence to the traffic police control room.
The photographs and the challan are dispatched to the residences of the offenders whose details are got from the RTO office headquarters.
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