The Supreme Court of India on 14th September joined the National Judicial Data Grid platform which supplies monitoring of pendency of circumstances. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud introduced the step saying that this can combine the Supreme Court’s real-time case information with the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) portal.
The portal will probably be up to date in real-time and provides particulars of all pending circumstances. “It is a historic day. It is a unique platform which is developed by the NIC and in house team of the Supreme Court. Now, at the click of a button, you can see real-time information on the pendency of cases, year-wise, total pendency of registered and unregistered cases, number of cases decided qoram-wise,” CJI DY Chandrachud mentioned im the open courtroom earlier than beginning the day’s proceedings.
“What we are doing for the High Courts and district courts should also be done for the Supreme Court,” the CJI added.
It is notable that district courts and excessive courts of the nation are already beneath the National Judicial Data Grid, and with the Supreme Court becoming a member of it, your entire judiciary is now beneath the portal as all three tiers of the Indian judiciary at the moment are on the NJDG portal. NJDG is acknowledged as a big innovation beneath the benefit of doing enterprise initiative of the Government of India.
The NJDG portal is a nationwide repository of knowledge regarding circumstances instituted, pending and disposed of by the courts throughout the size and breadth of the nation. Now with a click on of a button, one might entry case-related info, statistics similar to establishment, pendency and disposal of circumstances, case sorts, and year-wise break-up of the Supreme Court of India.
NJDG has been developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in shut coordination with the in-house software program growth workforce of the Computer Cell, Registry with an interactive interface and analytics dashboard. The whole database shall be periodically up to date on the NJDG portal.
NJDG is sui generis because it has introduced transparency and accountability inside the realm of the Indian judicial system by sharing all related information of circumstances instituted, pending and disposed of. The introduction of the portal has introduced a number of advantages to the residents like elevated transparency, accountability and duty, improved effectivity, elevated coordination, knowledgeable determination making, optimum deployment of sources and manpower, single supply of knowledge, and big potential for high-quality analysis work.
PM Narendra Modi lauded the initiative by the Supreme Court to hitch the NJDG portal. He posted on X, “Laudatory step by the Supreme Court and CJI DY Chandrachud Ji. Such harnessing of technology will further transparency and enhance the justice delivery system in our country.”
Laudatory step by the Supreme Court and CJI DY Chandrachud Ji. Such harnessing of know-how will additional transparency and improve the justice supply system in our nation. https://t.co/oAGZ03eOHY
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 14, 2023
The homepage NJDG portal has three totally different sub-portals, Supreme Court, High Courts, and District and Taluka Courts. All the portals function a dashboard on the homepage which supplies statistics of all of the pending circumstances in all three ranges of judiciary. It additionally has information on circumstances by class like legal and civil, by age of the circumstances, by kinds of circumstances like authentic, attraction, software and execution, by stage of the case, and lots of different standards.
Apart from the principle dashboard, there are two extra dashboards on the portals, the Pending Dashboard and the Disposed Dashboard, which offer detailed information on pending and disposed circumstances. The information is out there for your entire nation, for states, and for particular person districts.
According to the portal, at current a complete of 4,44,16,735 circumstances are pending within the district courts of India, which incorporates 1,10,59,799 civil circumstances and three,33,56,936 legal circumstances. 62.08% of the circumstances are over 1 12 months outdated.
The variety of complete pending circumstances within the Supreme Court is 80,501, together with 62,946 civil circumstances and 17,555 legal circumstances.
On the opposite hand, 60,72,047 circumstances are pending within the High Courts, which embrace 43,63,704 civil circumstances and 17,08,343 legal circumstances.
