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ECommittee of Supreme Court's Webinar for Lawyers on efiling and use of ECMT in eCourt Services


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25 Jun 2020
Categories: Courses & Workshops

eCommittee of Supreme Court of India and Department of Justice, Minstry of Law and Justice, Government of India  in collaboration with Delhi High Court is organising a training webinar for Delhi lawyers on efiling and use of electronic case management tools provided in eCourt Services  web portal and app on 27 June 2020.

Smt Arulmozhiselvi, Member (HR), eCommittee who is a senior judicial officer from Tamil Nadu is a resource person to conduct this tutorial. Shri G.R. Raghavender, Joint Secretary (National Mission for Justice Delivery & Legal Reforms) Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice will Moderate the Session.

eCommittee of Supreme Court of India was formed in the year 2004 on the request of Hon’ble Chief Justice of India. In 2005, eCommittee formulated a National Policy and Vision Document on Digitization of Judiciary. Under the Phase-I of eCourts Project, the 18,000 odd Courts in the Country were provided IT Hardware. Software applications were developed and they were connected with NICNET. In the Phase-II, Case Information System was developed for District Judiciary and High Courts. NJDG was developed as a National Repository of all the cases apart from development of eCourts Services Portal and Mobile App.

Some Projects being undertaken by eCommittee of Supreme Court and Dept of Justice, GoI -

National Judicial Data Grid for District Courts and High courts 
NJDG is the  repository of the case data and as on 17.5.2020 there are 46,43,854 pending cases data of High courts and 3,23,56,686 pending  cases data of District court available under NJDG.  NJDG got the stamp of world bank and moved India 20 ranks forward.

eCourts website (ecourts.gov.in)
This is one of the star attraction of eCourts project and  anyone can now get the Case Status; Court orders; Causelist 24 x7 all at a mouse click and that too in the comfort of the home.

District Court websites:
All the District Courts have launched their own websites to disseminate information related to District Courts using Drupal template and are put to maximum use by many High Courts for variety of uses at district level.

eCourts services Mobile Application: 
The eCourts services Mobile Application  launched on 22.07.2017 by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India has reached more than 43 Lakh downloads. The mobile application comes with search options for Case Status; Court orders; Causelist with the key attraction “My cases” option where one can add the personal case number and can get updates.

SMS PUSH: 
Case status is being sent automatically to the registered Advocates and litigants through SMS by the CIS 3.0 software using SMS push facility. From 2016 to June 2019, 12.23 crores SMS were sent to the litigants and Advocates who are registered with CIS software. 

SMS PULL
For litigants who have no internet connection, the case details can be got through the SMS Pull application by sending unique CNR number (Case Number Record) to 9766899899 through SMS. The format of the SMS is Ecourts to 9766899899. The case details automatically will be sent as reply SMS to the user mobile.

Case information system software for all the District Courts (CIS 3.2)
The salient features of the common Case Information System 3.1 (CIS 3.1) are innumerable and few are as follows: 
It is based on Open Source Solutions (FOSS).; 
Case Number Record (CNR) – Unique Case number for all cases;
Bilingual available for Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada and Tamil;
Data Health Card feature inbuilt in CIS will reveal the missing data entries in CIS;
Hide Party Name option under CIS can be used by the family court, POCSO, Juvenile courts and by enabling it the identity of parties can be maintained confidentially;
Automatic Fetching of Trial court data by Appellate court: Using this option, the data regarding the Trial court can now be fetched under CIS 3.0 by the appellate court. By this option the second time data entry of the same case in the appellate court is avoided.

National code for Case Type Standardization and Unification
Case Type Standardization and Unification: The national codes have been prepared and shared with High Courts. The district courts can use their existing nomenclature but it would be mapped to National code for case type, Adjournment type, Purpose type and Disposal type through software. The exercise of tagging of national codes with existing code is being done at District Courts. Now, the national statistical reports can be generated.

JO Code (Judicial Officers Code)
All the Judicial Officers of the country are provided with unique JO code. The statistics about number of judicial officers and the performance assessment can be easily managed by using JO code. 

Official Email Creation and Management
Official email IDs (25319) have been created for the Hon'ble Judges, Judicial Officers, Court establishments and Supreme Court Registry.

Virtual Court (vcourts.gov.in) 
Virtual Court is aimed at eliminating presence of litigant or lawyer in the court to adjudicate the case online. The first Virtual Court in the country was inaugurated in Delhi on 26th July, 2019. Virtual Courts are functioning at Delhi, NBT Challan Delhi, Chennai, Pune and Faridabad.

JustIS Mobile App 
A mobile App (JustIS) has been created for Judicial Management System. The judicial management, planning, monitoring and administrative decisions can be taken with the help of information generated through the National Judicial Data Grid and JustIS App.

NSTEP
National Service and Tracking of Electronic Process (NSTEP) is a mechanism consisting of centralized process service tracking application and a mobile app for bailiffs/process servers.  NSTEP is used for speedy delivery of processes and reduce in-ordinate delays in process serving. NSTEP Mobile App provided to bailiffs, helps in real-time and transparent tracking of service. Once the process is published through CIS software by the respective court, it becomes available on the NSTEP web application in the electronic format. 

eFiling
The e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India has designed and setup e-Filing system which enables, electronic filing of Legal papers. Using the e-Filing, Cases (both Civil and Criminal) can be filed before the High Courts and District Courts that adopt e-Filing system. Introducing of this e-Filing is aimed at promoting paperless filing and create time and cost saving efficiencies by adopting technological solution to file cases before courts in India. It is functioning under the following web address https://efiling.ecourts.gov.in/ 

ePayment of Court Fees
Online payment of Court Fees, Fine, Penalty and Judicial Deposits through https://pay.ecourts.gov.in  is initiated. Citizens can now make payments online using this portal alleviating the use of Stamps, Cheque and Cash. ePayment portal is integrated with state specific vendors like SBI ePay, GRAS, eGRAS, JeGRAS  and Himkosh etc.

eOffice
eOffice software application has been successfully implemented at the office of the eCommittee, High Court of Karnataka and Allahabad. It has been created to enhance the operational efficiency of the Govt. departments, through automating the work flow of administrative files in a paperless mode. 

Automated emailing service to registered users
The CIS software will automatically send emails to Advocates, Litigants with status of the case, next hearing date, cause list and judgment/orders, if the user email is registered with CIS software.

WAN Connectivity
Under e-Courts Mission Mode Project  Managed MPLS /VPN services was sanctioned by DOJ at the cost of Rs.169.61 crores and 2690 sites have been commissioned with WAN connectivity.

Training of Trainers
Master trainers (Judicial officers) and 219 Master trainers (Court Staff) were identified and trained as Master trainers who in turn trained 14,000 Judicial officers and 4000 staffs respectively.

eSewa Kendras
eSKs are being established as an One Stop Centre for access to all the services provided under eCourts Project. Considering that India is a vast country and most of the 3800 Court Complexes in the Nation are located at far flung areas where people don’t have access to IT hardware or network and lack the know how of it usage. eSKs are providing free of cost facilites like eFiling, eSignature and much more.

Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS)
Lately, this ambitious project of MHA which was stalled for quite some time was taken by the eCommittee. ICJS aims at seamlessly exchanging data between the different pillars of Criminal Justice System viz. Judiciary, Police, Prisons, Prosecution, Forensics and other. ICJS is now ready for pan India roll out between Judiciary and Police Data pillars.

Video Conferencing 
eCommittee has been instrumental in helping Supreme Court, High Courts and District Courts in adopting VC facility during the lockdown and has drafted model VC Rules. 

Digitization of Judicial Data
eCommittee has undertaken this exercise to have a pan India uniform digitization of legacy data in deciding and pending of Judicial files as also current data i.e. digital documents being created in day to day functioning in the Courts and data collected through eFiling.



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