This initiative is in furtherance of the motto of judiciary to promote transparency
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New Delhi: The National Judicial Data Grid (NJGD) to monitor the pendency of cases in all the district and lower courts across the country was inaugurated in the Supreme Court on Saturday by Justice Madan B. Lokur, who is in charge of e-committee of the apex court.
The grid, the public access portal, was inaugurated in the presence of the chairpersons of the computer committees of all the HCs and secretary, department of justice, government of India.
With this, the figures of pendency of district judiciary courts across the country, in aggregate for country and States as well as individual court/judges are left open for being accessed by anyone visiting the National e-Courts portal ecourts.gov.in.
This NJDG public access page, as available at ecourts.gov.in/services will give consolidated figures of pendency of cases in district judiciary across the country.
These statistics, which will be updated everyday by the respective court complexes covered under the e-Courts project, will show case pendency broken into civil and criminal cases segregated into age-wise categories of up to 2 years, between 2 to 5 years, between 5 to 10 years and more than 10 years.
The NJDG page for public access will also disseminate national and state, district and court wise information about institution and disposal of last month of cases and also the cases filed by senior citizen and women in the total pendency.
The public access page also has feature of monitoring alerts like all cases listed on Saturday across the country and the cases where no date is updated or a date more than 3 months later is updated.
All the statistics is provided in drill-down manner i.e. on clicking the figure for national pendency, next page showing its breakup of state-wise pendency will be shown.
This initiative is in furtherance of the motto of judiciary to promote transparency.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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