India, Sept. 30 -- By Abhishek Bhatia

Traffic police have intensified road safety measures by deploying drones to monitor lane discipline, officials said on Monday. Between January and September this year, 47,277 fines were issued to commuters through advanced aerial surveillance tools, according to Gurugram traffic officials.

Officials said violators who changed lanes hastily on busy routes, including expressways, were tracked and penalised in real time. "The Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras installed on the Jaipur-Delhi-Gurugram expressway (NH48) in July also assisted in monitoring lane violations and a total of 13,030 challans have been issued since then," said assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Vikas Verma, public relati...