# DISTRICT COURT COMPUTERISATION

- **Citation:** C.L. No. 19/95
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1995-05-08
- **Case number:** C.L. No. 19/95
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/district-court-computerisation-163995
- **Pages:** 1

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CHAPTER - XIV
DISTRICT COURT COMPUTERISATION

1.
FACILITY OF COMPUTER CORRESPONDENCE THROUGH NIC FOR
ALL THE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS OF THE STATE
C.L. No. 19/95 Dated 8 May, 1995

The Computer Center of the High Court has been connected with the NICNET
i.e. the National Network of the National Informatics Center (NIC). It has made us
capable of transmitting messages through Electronic Mail Services to you. This facility is
available at your end through your district centers of the NIC. For collecting and
delivering the messages and replies, Hon'ble the Chief Justice has been pleased to direct
that a clerk be deputed on the regular basis by District Judges at their local centers of the
NIC. The State Informatics Officer, Lucknow, Dr. Rakesh Goel has permitted the use of
this facility by you and has issued necessary directions to the district centers of NIC in
U.P. You may kindly bring it to the notice of the local officer of the NIC and take their
help in establishing communication through NICNET.

I am, therefore, directed to request you to kindly depute one clerk at the local
center of the NIC of your district situated in Collectorate compound on the regular basis,
under intimation to the local officer of NIC to collect the messages regularly. You are
also requested to transmit your messages through the local center of the NIC to High
Court, (in addition to the normal mode of communication). Inter district communication
is also possible through NICNET and it should be availed of as and when required.
2.
PROJECT REPORT PREPARED BY NIC
C.L. No. 34/96 Dated 16th July, 1996

National Informatics Center, a Central Government Organisation working under
the Planning Department of Govt. of India has undertaken the job of computerization of
the courts all over the country. It has a local centre in each district of the state and it is
located in the collectorate compound or somewhere near it. The purpose of the
computerization of courts has two objectives. Firstly to streamline and simplify the
functioning of the registries of the Supreme Court of India, High Courts and Lower
Courts in the country. Secondly, to make the whole system transparent an information be
available to the end user i.e. the litigant at the nearest possible place of his/her
hometown. For achieving these two objectives, the National Informatics Centre has
prepared a phased plan. The project report relating to it is being enclosed herewith for
your detailed information and co-operation with the officers of NIC.

Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India has desired that the computerization work of
the courts be taken on top priority and the NIC should be given all necessary help to
establish various systems in subordinate courts and its linking with the High Court and
the Supreme Court. Here I may mention you that the NIC aims at solving your local
problems relating to fresh filing of cases, the pending cases, the administrative matters,
library, record room and other matters on a uniform pattern throughout the state so that
the computerized systems of one place may be inter-linked with the other and they be