Platinum Award For Excellence In Digital Governance Conferred On e-Committee Of Supreme Court Of India

• The e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India has been consulted with the Platinum Award for Excellence in Digital Governance by the President of India. The Committee, of which Hon'ble Dr Justice DY Chandrachud, Judge of the Supreme Court, is the Chairperson, with the previous Judge of Bombay High Court, Justice RC Chavan as Vice-Chairperson, has led the fundamental right to access to justice during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• The goal of the e-Court was to give proficient and time-bound resident-driven assistance conveyance, to robotize the legal cycle to give straightforwardness in the availability of data to its partners, to upgrade legal efficiency, and to make equity conveyance framework moderate, open, practical, unsurprising, solid and straightforward. 

• Reveals to Uttarakhand HC One of the vital mainstays of e-Courts is the accessibility of District and Subordinate Court Services just as High Court Services, for example, case status, cause rundown, and requests/decisions, to residents and disputants. 

• All out of 13.79 crore cases (forthcoming and arranged) and 13.12 crore requests and decisions are accessible at the subordinate court level, and 2.54 crore cases (forthcoming and arranged) and 48 lakhs request and decisions are accessible at the High Court level. 

• The Case Information System (CIS) application which takes into account legal computerization has been actualized at 3293 area court buildings and 25 High Courts. 

• E-Payment administration has additionally been actualized which permits different partners to pay court expenses, fines, punishment and legal stores. 

•  An electronic system by the name of National Service and Tracking of Electronic Process (NSTEP) has been initiated as a piece of the task. 

•  Further, data about individual district courts are accessible at the District Courts Portal, with 688 number of district court sites being operational presently. 

• Video Conferencing for Virtual Hearings have likewise occurred, with 15,90,918 cases being heard by the High Courts, and 39,56,840 cases being heard by the District Court. E-Sewa Kendras have been set up in 19 High Courts and 219 District Court Complexes to help individuals who are not geeky or techies.

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