Redefining courts---ecourts

Social control become possible only when we can ensure an efficient justice delivery system for the people. We can do so with good courts. But biggest problems is in resolving disputes and in solving crimes come because of delays in judicial procedures. That is solved by e-courts. There are 14,209 district and 'Taluka' courts in India. Computerization has taken place in 12,229 of them. In 11,810 courts software has been installed and they are ready for use. The application software has been developed and standardized by E-committee of 'e courts' project. Now the transition to 'e courts' will be made smooth. Case management system will make this transition easy. Judicial information grid has been made.Websites have been made.All district courts have access to information through the internet.
All Judicial Officers now have laptops. They are being taught to use the laptops and are now orienting themselves to access information in the websites. To introduce the changes, 'Change Management Program' has been made.Within four months,all Judicial Officers will be using computers which has revolutionized their profession.E-committee has conducted awareness program to Judicial officers and carried out training. 60 master trainers will give training in an effective way.E-committee will teach them to use the special software designed.High court are now entering data on court cases.
Justice delayed is justice denied; over 43 lakh cases are pending in the India's courts.Such monumental numbers can be dealt by computerization alone.There is no other way. Accurate data must be entered for this to work.Data is being entered on a daily basis, as they are filed. Police stations have been connected, you can find out if a convict would be given bail, and when he can be bailed out.A litigant can know when his appeal will come.Litigant can monitor his case and avoid paper work.There is going to be digital signature of the judge when case is over. All this will will speed up the litigatory process and provide district and 'Taluka' courts greater transparency.There is going to be Complaint Management System through which you can seek redressal.  Computerization would be done very rapidly,so that all courts become fast track courts.Taking technology to the people is the way to overcome hurdles to progress.Modernization has been made from the viewpoint of the citizens.That is, it is citizen centric. India's future is bright, thanks to technocrats who have brought good governance through most modern technology in most needed areas.Addtional news on this topic was written on July 19,2012 in this blog under the title,ICT enabled courts.