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Scope of National Judicial pendency are being linked to be part of

the NJDG to create a National Arrears
Data Grid widens Grid. Under the NJDG, citizens would
avail themselves of services through
a Judicial Service Centre at every
court complex. These include filing of
The grid computerises, records the judicial information and cases, availability of certified copies of
monitors the cases from the time the case is registered, till it is orders/judgements, information about
case status, etc. The case management
disposed of with judgement, reports my siddiqui system is a process which increases
judicial control over identification of
ational Judicial Data Grid November 2019 under all the High substantive issues and optimises the
(NJDG), started as a part Courts. One of the key benefits of com- time required to complete litigation.
of the ongoing e-Courts puterisation of courts is the automa- With the 25 per cent vacancies in
Integrated Mission Mode tion of case management. All courts district/subordinate judiciary, about
N Project, now covers all dis- including the higher judiciary of High 42 per cent vacancies in High Courts,
trict and sub-divisional courts of India. Courts with 44.75 lakh cases pending one vacancy in the Supreme Court, and
It computerizes, records the judicial and the Supreme Court with 59,867 unholy Bar-Bench nexus, which delays
information and monitors the cases
from the time the case is registered,
till it is disposed of with judgement. It
also groups similar law points, court
rules, similar cases and related Acts.
While functioning as a tool of expedi-
tious disposal of cases and reducing
huge pendency of cases, arrears of
cases are still not reducing simply
because of ugly Bar-Bench nexus
resulting in frequent adjournments,
aided and abetted by continuing some
large vacancies of magistrates/judges
caused by inability of respective High
Courts and State Governments to fill
the vacancies on time. There appears
to be a lack of coordinating machinery
between the respective State Govern-
ments and High Courts.
With the NJDG, e-Judiciary service
is implemented as a distributed online
web system. The latest consolidated
figures of district-wise pending cases
have now become a click away. The While functioning as disposal of cases, continuing unabated,
Grid would give litigants and others myriad technological innovative
the consolidated figures of pending a tool of expeditious measures to fast track disposal of cases
cases in the country’s district judiciary. disposal of cases including expeditious reductionof
Aimed at promoting transparency and approximately four crores pending
access to information for all stakehold- and reducing huge cases, people are keeping their fingers
ers in the justice delivery system, the pendency of cases, crossed about faster delivery of justice.
NJDG public access page can be visited Pendency of cases is constant as in
at the National e-Courts portal, ecourts. arrears of cases are 2014, when the current Government
gov.in.NJDG covers all categories of still not reducing first took over. Presently, judge-popu-
cases including juvenile justice system. lation ratio in India is about 18 judges
Currently, NJDG contains informa- simply because of per one million population!
tion on over 3.14 crores pending cases ugly Bar-Bench nexus
of district/subordinate judiciary as in LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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