Government Accelerates Digital Transformation of Judiciary Under eCourts Phase III to Reduce Case Pendency
The Government approved eCourts Phase III (2023–2027) on 13.09.2023 to build digital, paperless courts and support case e-filing, e-payments, NJDG access, virtual hearings, and digitisation.
- eCourts Phase III aims to digitise court work through paperless records, virtual hearings, and systems that work together.
- CIS 4.0 is a court case management system that shares court data with national justice platforms.
- NJDG is a central portal that lets litigants view case information and case outcomes like orders and judgments.
- Judicial Digital Trustworthy Repository is used to safely store digitised court records, including legacy records.
What happened: Government rollout indicators under eCourts Phase III
The Ministry of Law and Justice presented implementation progress for eCourts Phase III (2023–2027), a digital transformation programme for Indian courts under the e-Courts Mission Mode Project. The stated objective is faster case processing and reduced case pendency through digital, paperless court processes.
The Government reported the following implementation status indicators and system capabilities:
UPSC may frame eCourts Phase III as a case of governance-by-systems: how digital records, interoperability across justice institutions, and virtual hearing processes can reduce delays and improve access. The focus can also include implementation governance (connectivity, digitisation scale, platform integration) and what rollout indicators can and cannot prove about pendency reduction.
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