National Judicial Data Grid
The Supreme Court of India has launched a public access portal of the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) for district courts to demystify the judicial process for the ordinary citizen. The public access portal will disseminate national, State, district and court-wise information about institution and disposal of cases on a monthly basis.
The main objective is to promote transparency and access to information for all stakeholders in the justice delivery system, the NJDG public access page can be visited at the National eCourts portal, ecourts.gov.in’. It will give consolidated figures of the pendency of cases in district judiciaries across the country.
The NJDG already has information of 1.94 crore pending cases out of approximately 2.7 crore cases in district courts, except those in Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, where case data is being migrated to the national version of case information software.
The public access page also has a feature of monitoring alerts like all cases listed for the day across the country and the cases where no date is updated or a date more than three months later is updated. The Indian judiciary comprises nearly 15,000 courts spread in approximately 2,500 court complexes throughout the country.
Tidbits
- The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India.
- It comprises the Chief Justice of India and 30 other judges.
- The law declared by the Supreme Court becomes binding on all courts within India
- The Supreme Court has extensive original jurisdiction for the protection of the fundamental rights of citizens.
- The Supreme Court of India came into being on 28 January 1950.
- Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (born 3 December 1950) is the Chief Justice of India (CJI).
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