Reforms And Initiatives Mark The First 100 Days Of 50th Chief Justice Of India, Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud

Supreme Court of India has witnessed several new initiatives in the first hundred days of the dynamic leadership of Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India, Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud. CONFERENCES AND PROGRAMMES To continue the tradition of celebrating the Constitution Day jointly by all the three organs of the State, the Supreme Court of India, had organized a programme to deliberate upon various dimensions of the Constitution to promote democratic values on the 26th November, 2022. Hon’ble Prime Minister had inaugurated the function and delivered the Inaugural Address. Her Excellency the President of India delivered the Valedictory Address. The working sessions of Chief Justices’ Conference, chaired by Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India, had deliberated on several topics related to “Envisioning a futuristic judiciary” in November, 2022. In commemoration of 73rd Anniversary of the establishment of the Supreme Court of India, first Annual Lecture on the theme “The Role of Judiciary in a Changing World” by Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sundaresh Menon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Singapore was organised by the Supreme Court of India this month. A delegation of 23 US State Court Judges, including the Indian-American Judges, led by Hon’ble Justice Sanjay T Tailor, Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District met Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India to discuss issues related to judicial functioning. The Supreme Court of India conducted first ever Hackathon for identifying innovative ideas and exploring practical propositions for refining and bringing in efficiency to the existing processes from ‘filing’ to ‘listing’ of judicial matters. The event was part of the process to enhance the organisational practices and usher in reforms in the working of the Registry. I.T. INITIATIVES E-SCR On 2nd January, 2023, Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India launched eSCR [Supreme Court Reports (SCR), the official publication of Supreme Court of India] as a tribute to the nation. With more than 34,000 judgments available online, the portal provides facility to search judgments based on various parameters like, phrase, words, all words, name of the Hon. Judge, Bench strength, volume, citation, date of decision etc. The portal provides free access to the Supreme Court Reports, published since 1950 onwards. Total of 34,055 judgments have been uploaded so far in English language. As an upgrade to the eSCR, within just 4 weeks of the launch, on 26th January 2023, Supreme Court of India released some new features on the e-SCR portal. With an aim to provide access to the Judgments in scheduled languages, the new feature provides translated versions of Supreme Court Judgments in Indian languages. So far 3132 judgments translated in Indian languages are available (Hindi- 2952, Tamil – 52, Malayalam- 29, Telugu – 28, Odia -21, Kannada- 17, Marathi-14, Assamese & Punjabi- 4 each, Nepali, Gujarati & Urdu- 3 each, Garo and Khasi – 1 each). Another feature added in e-SCR is word proximity search for providing searching of words in selected proximity. This feature assists the user to narrow down search for providing better results. ONLINE APPEARANCE SLIP Initiatives that have been propelled for ensuring smooth access to justice through use of technology and to make the working of the Registry paperless include launch of Advocate Appearance Slip Portal that aims to do away with manual filing of appearance by the Advocates-on-Record. Since its launch, 1,42,818 online appearance slips have been submitted and equal number of papers, if not more, have been saved. DIGITIZATION OF RECORDS The process of scanning and providing soft paper books for paperless court functioning are inspired by the visionary outlook of the Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India to ensure that Judiciary uses technology to its optimum level. The PIL section has also started extensive use of technology and is working towards electronic processing of petitions. e-OFFICE & e-HRMS Implementation of e-Office module in certain administrative sections in the Supreme Court of India, initiating the process of implementation of e-HRMS in the Registry are also some of the fast moving initiatives that are aimed not only at environment friendly, paperless operation of the Registry but also would go a long way in employee record maintenance and efficient administration. ANNUAL PROPERTY RETURN MODULE All the officers and officials of the Registry can submit their annual property returns online. The Computer Cell’s joint initiative with the Vigilance Cell to develop the annual property module is another epaulette on the shoulders of the Registry to save paper and streamline the work processes environmentally sustainable. ...

Reforms And Initiatives Mark The First 100 Days Of 50th Chief Justice Of India, Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud

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