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e-court project launched

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Speedy justice: Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court S.R. Bannurmath inaugurating the web site of the Subordinate Judiciary in the State at the District Court complex in Kochi on Friday.

KOCHI: Incorporating e-court scheme into the judicial system could solve problems pertaining to space and storage, faced by the judiciary, P.K. Balasubramanian, Chairman, e-committee of the Supreme Court has said.

Delivering the inaugural address at the State-level launch of the e-court project at the District Court Complex here on Friday, Mr. Balasubramanian said that cooperation from the State government was required to maintain the e-court system.

The e-court mission mode project will use a standard software for all district and subordinate court across the country. This is meant to facilitate integration of all courts, sharing of data among courts and creation of a National Judicial Grid.

Mr. Balasubramanian said that the e-committee also proposed to create a data bank by making judgments available online. “We also plan to archive the records so that record rooms can be utilised better. Chaos in record rooms can thus be avoided,” Mr. Balasubramanian said.

He said that technical members of the e-committee and the Additional Director of the National Informatics Centre would visit each district in the State to check whether there were any teething troubles in the implementation of the scheme and if any, would tackle them promptly. Later, inaugurating the website of the Subordinate Judiciary in the State, Chief Justice of High Court S.R. Bannurmath said that in the IT era, the judiciary could not be found lagging behind. He said that the judiciary woke up to the need for the introduction of IT after noting the pendency of cases and delays caused. Mr. Bannurmath hoped that technology would help deal with these problems.

In his address High Court Judge Kurian Joseph said that introduction of IT would help in effective implementation of social justice expected of courts.

High Court Judge A.K. Basheer, Chairman, e-court project monitoring committee of the High Court, said that the project would make the judicial system more transparent and accessible to the public.

K.S. Raman, State Informatics Officer, and George Merlo Pallath, president, Bar Association, Ernakulam, offered felicitations. A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai, Registrar Subordinate Judiciary, Kerala High Court, and D. Pappachan, Principle District and Sessions Judge, Ernakulam, spoke.

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