PM Modi launches e-court innitiatives on Constitution day

In the Supreme Court’s presence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking part in Constitution Day festivities alongside Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. Since 2015, November 26 has been observed as Constitution Day to honour the Constituent Assembly’s adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1949. Four digital court initiatives were introduced by the prime minister.

“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 the Prime Minister include Virtual Justice Clock, JustIS mobile App 2.0, Digital court and S3WaaS Websites,” his office was quoted as saying in a statement.

In a tweet, shortly before the event, PM Modi shared a post along with a video: “Today, on Constitution Day, we pay homage to those greats who gave us our Constitution and reiterate our commitment to fulfil their vision for our nation.”

Today, on Constitution Day, we pay homage to those greats who gave us our Constitution and reiterate our commitment to fulfil their vision for our nation. pic.twitter.com/eKVwA7NdaB

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 26, 2022

While JustIS Mobile App 2.0 is a tool available to judicial officers for effective court and case management by monitoring the pendency and disposal of not only his court but also for individual judges working under them, Virtual Justice Clock is said to be an initiative to exhibit vital statistics of the justice delivery system at the Court level by giving the details of the cases instituted, cases disposed and pendency of cases.

According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office, the digital court programme aims to give judges access to court documents in digitised form in order to facilitate the move to paperless courts.