PANAJI
In a bid to tighten road safety enforcement and curb traffic violations, the Goa government has chalked out plans to begin outfitting police vehicles and State-run Kadamba buses with artificial intelligence-enabled dashboard cameras under a new surveillance initiative known as the Goa Vehicle Authentication (GoVA) System.
“It is a project initiated by the Traffic Cell under the supervision of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant,” Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Prabodh Shirwaikar confirmed, speaking to The Goan.
The officer revealed that the government has approved the proposal and though it is still in the preliminary stage, the modalities are being worked out. “For now, we have decided to begin with police vehicles and KTCL buses,” he added.
The GoVA System, cleared by the State cabinet this week, will be rolled out in a public-private partnership (PPP) model. The system seeks to record visible traffic violations, streamline vehicular documentation at State borders and ensure wider enforcement of the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
“The AI-enabled dash cams will be a significant tool in capturing real-time violations, generating alerts, and issuing challans through an automated backend system. It will make our roads safer and enforcement smoother,” Shirwaikar said.
The system will be implemented in two phases. In the first phase, an automated border document verification system will be introduced at designated check posts. It will allow real-time online verification of vehicle documents including registration certificates, insurance papers and pollution under control (PUC) certificates through integration with the central government’s Vahan and challan databases.
Phase two will see the installation of dash cams on government vehicles to record and process visible traffic violations on the go. The footage will be used for real-time monitoring, route analytics, road cess enforcement, and centralised compliance tracking.
According to the proposal, the project is being coordinated by the Info Tech Corporation of Goa Ltd (ITG). Mistotex Technology Pvt Ltd has been selected as the system integrator for five years.
The revenue-sharing model will be divided – 55 per cent to the Goa government, 5.5 per cent to ITG and 39.5 percent to the system integrator.
