New Delhi : The District Court Computerization and Networking Programme, being implemented by the National Informatics Centre in all the 430 District Courts in the Country, was inaugurated by the then Chief Justice of India, Justice A M Ahmadi on March 4, 1997.
The function held at Tis Hazari Court was presided over by the Chief Justice of India Designate, Justice J S Verma.
After successfully computerizing the Supreme Court and all 18 High Courts, NIC has taken up the District Court Computerization & Networking Programme. This will enable all 430 District Courts in the Country to use Information Technology Tools in their day-to-day work. Under this Programme, every District Judge and officials of equivalent rank will be provided with a computer terminal and printer in the court room for their daily use. This will help the District Courts in streamlining the judicial administration by computer assisted monitoring of case filing; keeping track of movement of case files in the court, providing computer based querying facilities to litigant/ advocate. Once all District Courts, 18 High Courts and the Supreme Court of India are interconnected through NICNET the District Judges will be able to access National and International Legal Databases and avail Internet and E-mail facilities.
Litigants and advocates will get certified copies of orders or judgements instantaneously as they will have be stored in the Computer System and it can generate several copies in a short time. It will help the Judicial Administration in reducing the pendency by automatic bunching of cases for a common judgement. The same has been achieved in the Apex Court and several High Courts.
Introduction of Information Technology Tools will bring a better work culture in the District Courts for benefiting the litigants especially from rural areas.