The NIC- Gujarat High Court Computer Centre was established in April 1994. In the initial phase of establishment, computer was used only for generating the Paybills and List of Business (LOBIS). But today the scene is different, the Centre has made significant progress and has covered a long distance. Over a span of three years the infrastructure as well as the manpower of the Centre has increased three fold. And the areas of application of computers has gone much beyond just generating paybills. Today, it is capable of meeting with almost the entire administrative as well as judicial requirements of the Court. The Centre is facilitated with the Comprehensive Case Information System (CCIS). The System Provides several facilities for the benefit of the litigants; lawyers and the various departments. CCIS takes care of a case from the stage of filing to its disposal. Centralized counter are set up for filing and issue of processes such as notices, writ etc. Also, several statistical reports for monitoring purpose are generated on a daily/monthly/yearly basis. Some of the important facilities are:
FILING COUNTER For the purpose of filing of cases, a centralized Filing Counter has been established. The relevant information such as the case number, type and year; date of filing; next date of hearing; the litigants and their addresses; the advocate etc, of all the cases filed is entered into the computer. This information is used at all later stages such as the generation of cause list; notices; titles for order and judgements.
PROCESS COUNTERS The centralized Process Counters handle the issue of notices, writs, warrants etc, based on the interim or final orders of the Court.
ADVOCATE-WISE BOARD The LOBIS that was printed initially was Court-wise and had the drawback of requiring the lawyers to go through a copy of the cause list of each of the Courts. To overcome this, the Advocate-wise Board has been introduced. This gives a consolidated list of the cases for a particular advocate for a particular day. Similarly consolidated list of the matters registered by an advocate during the month has also been made available.
INQUIRY COUNTER An Inquiry Counter to answer queries of the general public has been started. All information related to the case is made available at the on-line inquiry counter. This facility is also made available to the District Courts via NICNET.
ISSUE OF CERTIFIED COPY OF ORDER/JUDGEMENT A special programme has been developed for the entry of orders/judgements and transfer of the final orders to a common area. The Decree Department handling the work of issue of certified copy of order/judgement has been computerized from the stage of receipt of an application for a certified copy to the delivery of the same. The copy of the order/judgement available in the common area of orders, has been made available on-line at the Inquiry Counter. A File Movement Tracing System has also been developed to trace out the actual position/status of a particular file. Apart from the aforementioned features, several small Programmes separate from CCIS have been developed. The Programmes include - Payroll; Fixed Deposit Maintenance System; Lower Court Statistic; Recruitment of Judicial Magistrate and Transfer of Judicial Officers.