e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project
e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project
Why in News?
- The Government of India has recently launched the e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project in the country for computerization of District and subordinate courts with the objective of improving access to justice using technology.
Highlights
- As part of the National e-Governance Plan, the project is under implementation since 2007 for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development of the Indian Judiciary
- e-Courts project is being implemented in association with e-Committee Supreme Court of India and the Department of Justice.
- Under the Wide Area Network (WAN) Project, connectivity has been provided to 99.4% of total Court Complexes across India with an improved bandwidth speed.
- Case Information Software (CIS) is based on Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) which has been developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC).
- National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) is a database of orders, judgments, and cases, created as an online platform under the eCourts Project.
- It provides information relating to judicial proceedings/decisions of all computerized district and subordinate courts.
- Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have been introduced in 2020 to allow Central and State Governments and institutional litigants including local bodies to access NJDG data to improve pendency monitoring and compliance.
- 7 platforms have been created to provide real-time information on case status, cause lists, judgements, etc. to lawyers/Litigants.
- In addition, Electronic Case Management Tools (ECMT) have been created with Mobile Apps for lawyers and judges.