Waiting for updates on pending court cases? Well, get access to these through eCourts across all Common Service Centres

New Delhi, January 25: With this increasing pace of life and everything on one touch, the era of digitalization has garnered the much need attention. Getting everything feasible in one touch, people can now have an access to court case information digitalized. Court case information like judicial proceedings, case status, daily orders, and final judgments of all computerized district and subordinate courts will now be available across all Common Service Centers in the country.

 

In order to provide efficient and time-bound access to the Courts services to litigant public, the Department of Justice has decided to deliver eCourts services to them through around 2 lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs).

To ensure affordability, Department of Justice has decided not to charge any fee from the customers for eCourts related services delivered through CSCs. However, towards the cost of service, CSCs have been authorized to charge five rupees for any of the 23 services available on Courts portal.

According to an official release, so far around 17 thousand district and subordinate courts have become IT-enabled. eCourts services have now been successfully rolled out through SMS, email, mobile app and other platforms which are benefiting millions of litigants and advocates.

The government had initiated second phase of the e-Courts project as one of the National e-Governance projects, in August, 2015 with an outlay of Rs 1670 crore.