NATIONAL JUDICIAL DATA GRID

NATIONAL JUDICIAL DATA GRID

Subject : Polity

Context : According to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), a government platform monitoring judicial data, backlog of cases in district courts saw a sharp increase of 18.2 per cent between December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2020.

Concept :

• The National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) is a part of the e-Courts Integrated Mission Mode Project. It was launched in 2015. The aim is to track judicial performance across different courts in the country.
• The NJDG is working as National data warehouse for case data including the orders/judgments for Courts across the country.
• NJDG works as a monitoring tool to identify, manage & reduce pendency of cases.
• It also helps to provide timely inputs for making policy decisions to reduce delay and arrears in the system, facilitate better monitoring of court performance and systemic bottlenecks, and, thus, facilitate better resource management.
• NJDG has specifically helped India improve its ranking in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Report.

E-court Integrated Mission Mode Project

• The E-Courts Project was conceptualised on the basis of “National Policy and Action Plan for Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Indian Judiciary – 2005” submitted by e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India (set up in 2004).
• The main objectives of the e-Court Project are as follows:
• To provide efficient & time-bound citizen centric service delivery.
• To develop, install & implement decision support systems in courts.
• To automate the processes to provide transparency of Information access to its stakeholders.
• To enhance judicial productivity both qualitatively & quantitatively, to make the justice delivery system affordable, accessible, cost effective & transparent.
• The e-Courts National portal (gov.in) was launched in 2013. This provides Case Status, daily Case-list, Cases Filed and Cases Registered through the Case information System (CIS) Software.