PM Modi To Participate In Constitution Day Celebrations In SC Tomorrow, To Launch Various Initiatives Under E-Court Project

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Constitution Day celebrations in the Supreme Court at 10 am on 26 November, an official release said on Friday (25 November).

The day has been celebrated as Constitution Day since 2015 to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India by the constituent assembly in 1949.

During the programme, the Prime Minister will launch various new initiatives under the e-court project.

The project is an effort to provide services to litigants, lawyers and the judiciary through ICT enablement of courts.

The  initiatives being launched by PM Modi include Virtual Justice Clock, JustIS mobile App 2.0, Digital court and S3WaaS Websites, the Prime Minister's office said in a release.

Virtual Justice Clock is an initiative to exhibit vital statistics of the justice delivery system at the Court level giving the details of the cases instituted, cases disposed and pendency of cases on day/week/month basis at the Court level.

The effort is to make the functioning of the courts accountable and transparent by sharing with the public the status of case disposals by the court. Public can access the Virtual Justice Clock of any court establishment on the District Court’s website, the PMO said.

JustIS Mobile App 2.0 is a tool available to judicial officers for effective court and case management by monitoring pendency and disposal of not only his court but also for individual judges working under them, the PMO said.

This app is also made available to High Court and Supreme Court Judges who can now monitor pendency and disposal of all the States and Districts under their jurisdiction, it added.

Digital court is an initiative to make the court records available to the judge in digitised form to enable the transition to Paperless Courts.  

S3WaaS Websites is a framework to generate, configure, deploy and manage websites for publishing specified information and services related to district judiciary. 

S3WaaS is a cloud service developed for government entities to generate Secure, Scalable and Sugamya (Accessible) websites. It is multilingual, citizen friendly and divyang friendly, the PMO said.