National Lok Adalat today: 1.8 lakh traffic challans downloaded, some complain of ‘website issues’

“I’ve been sitting for two hours every day in front of my computer… the website keeps showing the server is down,” claimed advocate Dhir Singh Kasana, former Secretary of the Saket Court Bar Association. “The website needs to be made public-friendly,” he added.

The Traffic Police, however, said that daily limits were being exhausted in five minutes.

From 10 am on September 8, people were allowed to download challans and notices from the Delhi Traffic Police website. The limit on challan downloads per day is 60,000, and the maximum limit till September 13 is 1.8 lakh.

“There might not be a single person in Delhi who doesn’t have a traffic challan. The servers were working fine… but in just five minutes, the daily limit of challans was being exhausted. Everyone prefers the Lok Adalat to settle their challans, hence the rush on the website,” a senior traffic police officer said.

Others claimed the site didn’t work even after trying for three days. “The website just kept buffering. None of my challans were downloaded… nor were tokens generated. This must be improved by the government,” advocate Subhash Chandra, who practices in Saket Court, said.

The session is being organised by the Delhi Traffic Police and the Delhi State Legal Services Authority at all seven court complexes in the Capital. The proceedings will take place from 10 am to 4 pm, the Traffic Police said in a statement issued on September 6 on X.

The last such Lok Adalat was organised on May 10. Before that, a Lok Adalat on March 8 had seen 1,53,437 challans, amounting to Rs 405.02 crore, being settled.

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