CJI TO INAUGURATE COMPUTERISATION
OF DELHI CIVIL COURTS
The Chief Justice
of India, Mr. Justice V.N.Khare, will inaugurate the computerisation
of the City Civil Courts at the Tis Hazari Courts in the capital
on Sunday. The Delhi Civil Courts are the first city courts to
be computerised.
Department of Justice
has envisaged the use of Information Technology for the efficient
functioning of the judiciary and disposing of cases. Keeping in
view of the problem of large pendency of cases, a pilot project
for Computerisation of City Civil courts in the four metropolitan
cities of Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai was started from
the year 2001-02 at a cost of Rs 14.91 lakh.
The project of computerisation
envisages setting up a central enquiry, facilitation and filing
centre. Each court will be provided with two computers apart from
computers for administration and other associated work. Parties
will be able to file their complaints/petitions and also make
enquiries about pending cases etc. at these centres. Copies of
orders etc. could then be obtained by the parties on payment,
from these facilitation/enquiry centres. Cause lists of courts
would be prepared with the help of computers. Notices and court
processes can also be generated by the computers. Similar cases
would be clubbed together by the computer. Search of judicial
precedents would get facilitated by the use of computers.
Some innovative features
such as electronic filing of documents, facility for retrieving
certified copies of court orders through the website on payment
by credit cards, legal transcription facility, video conference
links and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) are also on cards.
The computerisation of courts in Delhi is expected to be a model
for computerisation of other courts.
During the year 2001-02,
an amount of Rs 4.98 crore was released to National Informatics
Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI), a subsidiary of National
Informatics Centre, Government of India, for implementing the
project in Delhi. An amount of Rs 2.19 crore to the Government
of Tamil Nadu, Rs. 4.17 crore to the Government of Maharashtra
and Rs 3.14 crore to Government of West Bengal was released for
computerisation project in the metropolitan cities of Chennai,
Mumbai and Kolkata, respectively, during the years 2001-03.
