TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION Atul Kaushik Joint Secretary Department of Justice

Technology offers courts a crucial commodity— information —that can help the justice agencies make better and quicker decisions, and track case outcomes

Technology integration helps courts "Technology is a powerful enabler that can empower courts to meet core purposes and responsibilities, even while severe economic pressures reduce court staff, reduce hours of operation, and even close court locations. To harness technology for this purpose, serious efforts are needed to examine process- reengineering opportunities, and courts must plan to (a) migrate from document to content management and (b) initiate customer relations management to improve the quality of justice, access to justice, and public trust and confidence in courts as an institution.“ Chris Crawford

Use of Technology in Courts in India GOI with NIC’s help has been computerising courts at all levels since early 1990s National Policy by eCommittee in 2005 launches eCourts Project Policy Document on eCourts Phase II in 2004 eCourts Phase II launched in August 2015

eCourts Phase I – Project Status Project Module Status as on August, 2015 No. of Completed Courts Percentage Sites Ready 1 14, LAN Installed 1 13, HW Installed 1 13, Software Deployed 1 13, The e-Courts portal ( is operationalhttp:// 511 District Court websites operational Case status information in respect of over 5 crore pending, decided cases and 2 crore orders/judgments available online NJDG open for public view

eCourts Phase II eCourts Phase II –Key Additional Components Renewable Energy Alternatives Display Boards, Kiosks with printing facility eLibrary, eOffice Digital Signatures to court staff Judicial Knowledge Management System Cloud Computing Process Re-engineering Process Service through hand held devices

National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG)  The aim of the eCourts Project is to leverage Information Technology for making case handling more efficient and better court management. This is planned to be achieved through universal computerisation of courts and connected to the NJDG  NJDG Provides case data for all courts across the country through a web portal on almost real time basis, with a dashboard and drill down facility to reach the case details in each case will help to ascertain the number and type of arrears in every court in the country for a better judicial monitoring and management

NJDG ARCHITECTURE NJDG dashboard provides updates on  List of Courts Number of Courts  Number of Cases Data Migration Status Total Number of establishments Pending age wise  Summary report of Courts Status of cases Case wise pendency Case age wise pendency

Home screen of NJDG

e-Courts Application S/W CIS Details No. of Menu Items: 1245 No. of Data Entry Forms/Reports: 590 No. of Captions: 8011 No of Functional Behaviors: 54 Menu Items with Behaviors: 214

Progress so far The software has been installed at courts NJDG shows courts-why? These courts are uploading data on regular basis Who is monitoring? Pending cases 2.06 crore on NJDG against 2.6 crore based on manual inputs from High Courts Migration under process in Madhya Pradesh and Delhi Fix timelines for migration? Campaign to reduce undated cases Who is monitoring?

Integrated Project Management Issue Tracking Tool Requirement Gathering Tool Control Table Management

Basic data structure of application Data Tables Master Data Transaction Data View Control Tables Link LabelsField LabelsButtonsMessages Behavior control tables State wise application behaviour Language Control Enable Bilingual feature Database

e-Courts Status Today eCourts Services portal (Accessibility compliant) available NJDG – Courts Intranet interface available NJDG – Public Interface launched SMS Module Launched and implemented in many districts Training (Capacity Building) Phase I Completed 8 Faculty Members 240 Master Trainers (DSAs) 4100 (System Administrators)

Information available on NJDG Data in respect of more than 5.75 crore cases 2.14 crore orders/judgments District and subordinate Courts under the jurisdiction of 22 out of 24 High Courts [512 districts, 4777 establishments, courts] NJDG has been linked to etaal.gov.in and is showing crore transactions as on 5 th January, 2016, third highest in all Government

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