About us

Built for Indian drivers

Mr.Road is the simplest way to check, manage, and pay your traffic challans across India. We were e-Challan for four years. Now we're Mr.Road — same team, clearer brand, better app.

3L+
Active users
2.3 Cr
Lookups served
4.3★
Play Store rating
2022
Year founded

Who we are

Mr.Road is built by Citizen Apps, an Indian proprietorship founded in 2022. We make tools for everyday Indian citizens — starting with vehicle owners, expanding to other civic-service categories over time.

We're a small, independent team. We don't take government funding. We're not anyone's product side-bet. We make the apps we want to use ourselves.

What we believe

Why "Mr.Road"?

We rebranded from e-Challan to Mr.Road in May 2026 for one simple reason: clarity. The name "e-Challan" sounded like an official government service, which we are not. Mr.Road is our own brand — like Truecaller is for caller ID and CRED is for credit cards. We help with the road, we don't run it.

Existing users keep all their data. The rebrand is on the surface; the underlying app is the same one that served you in 2023, 2024, 2025 — just better.

What's next

Mr.Road v1 (currently live on Play Store) focuses on the core: challan check & pay. Future versions will add RC details (via licensed data partners), insurance comparison (via authorised insurers), document vault, and renewal reminders. Each new feature ships only when we can do it cleanly, legally, and at a price our users can afford.

The team

Anil Kumar Kanneboina · Founder, Citizen Apps

Based in Hyderabad, India. Reachable at hello@mrroad.in.

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