The eCommittee, of the Supreme Court of India in association with the
Department of Justice (DoJ) of the Government of India held a two day
National Conference in New Delhi on December 2 and 3 in which all the
Central Project Coordinators of various High Courts connected with the
ongoing National eCourts Project along with eCommittee Members, senior
officers from DoJ, NIC and many other senior Judicial officers
participated. The Conference was chaired by the Hon’ble Mr. Justice
Madan B. Lokur the Judge-In-Charge of eCommittee and co-Chaired by Dr.
Alok Srivastava, Secretary DoJ. The Conference focused on the progress,
sharing of best practices, experiences, important issues and emerging
challenges under the Project.
The eCourts Mission Mode Project (Phase I 2010-15; Phase II 2015-19) is a
national eGovernance project for ICT enablement of district and
subordinate courts of the country. It is being implemented by the
Government of India with a total outlay of 1670 crores (Phase II). The
major objectives of the Project are to make whole judicial system ICT
enabled by putting in place adequate and modern hardware and
connectivity; automation of workflow management in all courts;
electronic movement of records from taluka/trial to appeal courts;
installation of video conferencing (VC) facility and recording of
witness through Video Conferencing; connecting all courts in the country
to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) through WAN and additional
redundant connectivity; citizen centric facilities such as electronic
filing, e-payment and use of mobile applications in all courts; touch
screen based kiosks in each court complex, full computerisation of State
and district level judicial and service academies and centres.
Specific targets set under the Project include: computerization of all
the courts (around 20400) and DLSA and TLSC; WAN and cloud connectivity
in 3500 court complexes; full Installation and use of Video Conferencing
facility at 3000 Court Complexes and 1150 prisons; charting out key
identified citizen services like electronic filing, daily orders,
delivery of decrees, online case status in all the district courts etc.
The best practices of High Courts of Punjab & Haryana, Himachal
Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh were shared by the CPCs
of these States during the Conference. The Hon’ble Judge in-Charge
while expressing satisfaction on the progress called for continued
sincere efforts needed be made to achieve the remaining targets.
Secretary (Justice) Dr. Alok Srivastava stressed the importance of
definite timelines and better coordination at the High Court Level. The
Secretary later launched e-Filing software developed by eCommittee, for
district courts and High Courts. e-Filing software has the facility to
e-sign uploaded documents. Through e-Filing software, registered
advocates and registered parties or persons will be able to file their
cases in the district courts. Further, a demonstration was made by NIC
Pune of a new version of Case Information System CIS 3.0. In the new
improved version, various tools relating to court management, case
management and judicial planning and monitoring will also be shown. The
new version of CIS will be released and deployed soon.
Use of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) for Judicial planning and
monitoring, generating various statistical reports for administration
and policy decisions, was demonstrated. A need was expressed that
management users may be created for principal district judges as well as
for portfolio judges.
Success story of recently launched mobile application (eCourts services)
was shared with the participants. It was brought to the notice of all
the concerns that besides advocates, institution, organizations, common
litigants is using the services of mobile app successfully. The mobile
app has reached close to the figure of 3 lakhs downloads.
Automated Mailing Service recently launched for the benefit of litigants
and lawyers, was well applauded. It was noted that all the developments
of all the cases relating to particular litigants and lawyers, are
communicated by a single mail with the help of Automated Mailing
Service. Apart from this, cause list services, case status services,
next dates, filing registration scrutiny and objectives are some
important events where automated mails are being sent to the registered
mail address to the litigants and lawyers. Within short time, the
figures of events sent through mails has reached to 40 Lakhs.
SMS push service has been widely used across the country by the
litigants and lawyers. This SMS service is more popular in remote areas
where mobile phones without internet facility, are used by the litigants
and lawyers. Similarly, SMS pull service is made operational recently.
Anybody can send CNR no. to 9766899899 and in response, he would get the
case status.
It was well appreciated that as per the data available on eTaal, number
of electronic transactions, transacted under eCourts Project are very
high and are amongst top 5 performers with number of electronic
transactions being more than 40 crores.
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(Release ID :174192)
Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB)
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