India, April 26 -- Despite a sharp rise in traffic challans, enforcement and recovery remain weak in Gurugram, with police collecting only a fraction of penalties issued under the Motor Vehicles Act, according to data from an RTI filed by HT.

The Gurugram traffic police issued 1,244,812 challans in 2025 across the top ten violations, amounting to Rs.126.83 crore, but recovered only Rs.17.5 crore. This marks a continued decline from Rs.19.6 crore in 2024 and Rs.24.85 crore in 2023.

Even as ticketing rose 1.5 times from 834,122 challans worth Rs.99.2 crore in 2023, recovery has dropped nearly 70% year-on-year. Officials attributed the surge in ticketing to 1,200 CCTV cameras, including 308 AI-backed automatic number plate recognition (ANP...