Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Constitution Day celebrations at the Supreme Court in the presence of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. 26 November has been marked as Constitution Day since 2015 to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly in 1949. The Prime Minister launched four digital court initiatives.
“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 enabling courts. Among the initiatives launched by the Prime Minister are 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 tribute to those greats who gave us our Constitution and reiterate our commitment to fulfill their vision for our nation.”
While Virtual Justice Clock is seen as an initiative to display vital statistics of the justice delivery system at the court level with details of cases initiated, cases disposed of and pending cases, JustIS Mobile App 2.0 is a tool available to judicial officers for effective court and case management by tracking dependency and disposition not only his court, but also the individual judges working under them. The Digital Court is an initiative that aims to make court records available to judges in digitized form to enable the transition to paperless courts, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
