NEW DELHI: To make pendency, disposal and daily filings of cases in various courts available with a single click, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore is going to conduct a three-day training programme for officials of e-court mission project on data management skills.
In an e-court, work is executed digitally and the information that is shared and generated is stored in a database and synced to particular software. The e-court mission project comes under the ITC ambit and includes deployment of hardware, software and networking to assist lower courts in streamlining their daily functions.
The Ministry of Law and Justice has also asked the Indian Institute of Technology, IIM and law universities to suggest measures tackle pending cases and understand the bottlenecks affecting the expeditious conclusion of criminal trials.
Of the 24 high courts, 17 operate as e-courts and have utilised Rs 97.60 crores under the second phase (2014-2016) of the e-mission project. Under the project, 15 states have updated their data to system version 2.0.
The new version has better user interface, is mobile-friendly and has fast response.
The E-Committee has asked for names of officials for training from High Courts and the Department of Justice.
The ministry has also roped in 14 institutions connected to judicial reforms to suggest redesigning of the country’s legal education system.
The E-Committee was set up in 2004 to provide a guide map for use of IT and administrative reforms in the judiciary. The panel, headed by Supreme Court Justice M B Lokur, had made meaningful contributions to make courts litigant-friendly and lower the trial cost.
It has been able to install video-conferencing facilities in 95 per cent locations, in consultation with HCs. This would reduce the cost of transportation of accused from jail to court and will save the government an estimated Rs 100 crore every year.