News: Delhi-Mumbai Expressway Cameras to Fine Sudden Lane Changes-08-06-2026
Motorists who switch lanes abruptly on the Haryana stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (DME) will start receiving camera-generated challans from next week, as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) upgrades its automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras this week, officials said on Saturday.
The system covers nearly 120 km of the expressway through Gurugram, Sohna and Nuh, connecting to Faridabad. A new "offence code" is being added to the software to detect sudden lane jumps, a major cause of high-speed crashes and rear-end collisions. PK Kaushik, project director of NHAI’s project implementation unit in Sohna, said the cameras already detect speeding, wrong-side driving and parking violations.
Similar systems have been deployed by other PIUs in Dwarka and on the Delhi-Jaipur-Gurugram (NH 48) corridor.
A senior NHAI official, requesting anonymity, said the network will be linked to transport databases managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). Toll staff have been told to inform commuters of lane-wise limits: 120 kilometres per hour on the third and fourth lanes, 100 km/h on the second and 80 km/h on the first.
Traffic police also plan to penalise heavy and large commercial goods vehicles for lane violations. Deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Prateek Gehlot said he met 25 transporters on Thursday. Awareness drives will continue until Sunday, followed by a challaning drive.
