eChallan Parivahan: which official portal handles your state’s challans

The official address ends in .gov.in — or .nic.in for the NextGen portal. You are reading TrafficChallan.com, an independent guide: we are not the eChallan portal, we take no payments and we hold no challan or vehicle records. Any other address — a .com, a near-miss spelling, an app store result — is a different site, whoever runs it. Type one of the addresses in the tables below into your browser yourself, and check the challan there.

Last verified 13 Aug 2026

Independent directory of official portals. Nothing here is a challan search, and no payment is taken on this site — every link below goes to a government portal, each with its own last-checked date: the date above covers the two national addresses, and every state row is dated on the state page linked beside it.

Which address is the official one?

Two national addresses, both run for MoRTH. Besides these, the other official routes are a state’s own portal and — once a challan has gone to court — a court portal. Both are covered further down.

A handful of genuine state police properties do sit on other domains, which is exactly why “not .gov.in” is not a test you can apply blindly — our check on whether a challan SMS is real carries the full allow-list with a note on each of those exceptions and how far to trust them.

Legacy vs NextGen: echallan.parivahan.gov.in or echallan.parivahan.nic.in?

The two addresses are identical up to the last few characters, and that ending decides where your challan is visible — so it is the first thing to check when a challan seems to have vanished. The gov.in address is the original portal; the nic.in address is the NextGen eChallan, and the legacy portal’s own notice board names 27 states and union territories whose challans must be checked and paid on NextGen instead. Of the 13 states this site tracks, 8 transact on NextGen and 5 still transact on the legacy portal.

The legacy portal was not switched off when a state moved. For a migrated state it keeps serving a notice that points you onward — which is why the same vehicle can show nothing on one address and its challan on the other. The state records behind this site describe it directly:

• Jammu and Kashmir — MoRTH eChallan (legacy portal) – the page J&K Traffic Police still links to; it carries the notice sending JK users to NextGen
• Karnataka — Legacy eChallan Parivahan 'Challan Details' page (carries the notice redirecting KA users to NextGen)
• Rajasthan — National eChallan portal (MoRTH) – now redirects RJ users to NextGen
• Tamil Nadu — Legacy MoRTH eChallan portal (no longer serves TN – its notice board redirects TN to NextGen)
• West Bengal — Legacy Parivahan eChallan 'accused challan' page (still linked from WB police sites; redirects WB users to NextGen)

Practical rule: if one national address shows nothing, open the other before concluding there is no challan — and if your state runs its own portal, check that too. What each portal then asks you for — the extra Registration Date field NextGen wants, which tabs need no date at all — is set out step by step in our guide to how to check an e-challan.

Which portal serves your state?

Grouped by where your challan is actually settled rather than alphabetically. First: states whose challans are transacted on a national portal and nowhere else. Then: states where a state-run service also handles challan payment — a police challan portal in most, a state payment gateway or assisted counter in others. Read each label: it says what that particular service does, and they are not interchangeable.

National portal only — 4 states

A state-run service also handles payment — 9 states

Every address above comes from that state’s own record on this site, each with its official sources and its own last-checked date on the state page linked in the first column.

Why can’t I find my challan on the Parivahan portal?

A challan is only visible on the portal that holds it, so every answer below is about routing — you are looking at a portal other than the one your challan sits on. In the order worth checking:

1. You are on the other national portal. 8 of the 13 states here transact on NextGen (echallan.parivahan.nic.in) and 5 on the legacy portal (echallan.parivahan.gov.in) — see the legacy/NextGen split above.
2. A state-run service handles your state’s challan payment. 9 of the 13 states on this site have one alongside the national portal — the second table above lists each of them.
3. It has gone to court. A challan forwarded to a virtual court becomes a court case, searchable on vcourts.gov.in by vehicle, challan or CNR number. What remains possible on the eChallan side depends on which court it went to — our status decoder sets out each case with its sources.
4. The portal is telling you something specific. “Challan Not Found”, “under investigation” and the rest are decoded, with sourced next steps, on our challan status page.

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