Odisha: Digitisation of Courts under the e-Courts Mission Mode Project (Phase III)
Odisha’s digitisation progress under e-Courts Mission Mode Project (Phase III)
- The Department of Justice implements the e-Courts Mission Mode Project in coordination with the eCommittee of the Supreme Court of India and uses High Courts for decentralized execution.
- The Orissa High Court guides implementation of e-Courts in Odisha across district and subordinate courts.
- Reported progress includes ICT hardware coverage, legacy record digitisation, paperless operations, migration to S3WAAS, CIS upgrades, ICJS data consumption, e-filing, virtual hearings, and eSewa Kendras.
What happened
Odisha’s implementation of the e-Courts Mission Mode Project (Phase III) is advancing through decentralised execution under the Orissa High Court for district and subordinate courts. Government information reports extensive ICT provisioning, large-scale digitisation of legacy records, growth of paperless operations using PDF-based tools, migration of district court websites to the S3WAAS platform, upgrading of court establishments from CIS 3.0 to CIS 4.0, and expansion of e-filing and virtual hearings.
Background and earlier position
For UPSC, the Odisha update helps connect e-governance implementation (hardware, digitisation, platforms, and paperless workflows) with the larger objective of end-to-end case lifecycle digitisation and improved access for litigants, advocates, and judicial officers. It also supports analysis of operational trade-offs: digitisation capacity, interoperability across systems, and citizen-facing service points.
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