Karnataka begins linking PUC data with VAHAN after out-of-state fines

The Karnataka Transport Department has initiated the integration of its Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUC/PUCC) records with the Centre’s VAHAN (Parivahan) portal, pursuing aggregate complaints of vehicles registered successful the State being penalised successful different parts of the state owed to missing emanation information connected the nationalist database.

Officials said that the linking process volition use to each PUC certificates issued from April 1, 2026, onwards. The determination comes aft respective instances wherein Karnataka-registered vehicles were fined up to ₹10,000 successful different States, arsenic enforcement systems could not observe valid contamination certificates connected the VAHAN platform.