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Government expands digital justice and legal aid infrastructure in Odisha via eCourts, Tele-Law, NALSA and Gram Nyayalayas (with budget and district-wise status)
Odisha’s access-to-justice infrastructure expanded through eCourts, Tele-Law, NALSA and Gram Nyayalayas, with operational status reported district-wise in a Lok Sabha written reply.
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Samachar Pathshala Desk
Published 27 Jul 2026 · 1 min
Key takeaways
- ADR Centres and mediation services help resolve disputes through dispute-resolution processes outside regular court trials, aiming to reduce case delays for people using local legal aid systems.
- Virtual courts are used for online adjudication of traffic challans (asynchronous virtual hearings), so traffic cases can be processed without requiring full in-person court attendance every time.
- Tele-Law delivers pre-litigation legal advice through Common Service Centres (CSC), which are service access points that connect people to legal help before a case reaches court.
- eCourts focuses on digital court services like e-filing and e-pay, plus Virtual Courts and video conferencing, and it uses the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) to support court data and case management.
What happened (Odisha + nationwide digital justice markers)
The Ministry of Law and Justice provided operational indicators for Odisha under eCourts, Tele-Law, NALSA and Gram Nyayalayas, alongside a few nationwide digital court markers used for traffic challans.
The UPSC angle
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District-level access to justice: ADR, mediation and digital courts in Odisha
UPSC can frame Odisha’s reported rollout as an access-to-justice approach that combines court digitisation, Tele-Law pre-litigation advice, and locally available ADR through ADR Centres and District Legal Services Authority mediation. The comparative angle is the movement from “court availability” to “service points” that citizens can use across districts.
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