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Pilot project for computerisation of courts in metros

By J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI April 18. To speed up the justice delivery system, the Centre has embarked on a pilot project for mass computerisation and networking of the subordinate courts in the four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata at an estimated cost of Rs. 14.91 crores.

Law Ministry, sources said that Rs. 8.53 crores was allocated for this scheme during 2001-2002 and during 2002-2003, Rs. 4.98 crores was released for Delhi and Rs. 2.61 crores for Mumbai as the project was in an advanced stage in the two cities.

With regard to Chennai, the Project Monitoring Committee had met twice in Chennai during January for speeding up of the computerisation work as was being done in Mumbai and Delhi. Regarding Kolkata, the State Government has been persuaded at the highest level to implement the project at the earliest as not much headway has been made here. Under the proposed scheme computers in the courts of the four cities would be networked and these courts would become models of modern computerised courts. This scheme will be gradually extended to other cities to cover all the 13,000 subordinate courts in the country. The Centre feels that district and subordinate courts which provide direct contact points for citizens are computerised fully for efficient judicial functioning and speedy disposal of cases.

The project envisages installation of one computer each in the court room and in the chamber of judges and their networking and linkages with a central enquiry and facilitation centre. Parties would be able to file their complaints and petitions and also make enquiries about pending cases at these centres. Sources say that these centres will furnish relevant information to the litigants and lawyers. They will be informed of the defects in the complaints/petitions, if any, without the need to access individual courts and asked to rectify them within two weeks. Thereafter, the case will be given a registration number and allocated to a judge/magistrate according to the work distribution already fed into the computer and a date for appearance of parties would be given.

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