# 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-163996 - **Pages:** 2 ## Text 541 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 542 compatible to each other. This would also help the compilation of the statistical data of the entire state at one place. This on the one hand, would increase your administrative grip on day-to-day affairs and on the other hand, the High Court and the Supreme Court will be automatically appraised of all the developments taking place at the lowest cadre of the judiciary. This would also bring efficiency and transparency in the system. I am, therefore, directed to request you that full co-operation be extended to the officers on National Informatics Centre as and when they contact you. If you are personally very busy and find it difficult to supervise, you may depute an officer specifically to monitor the progress and streamline the things. 3. DISTRICT COURT COMPUTERIZATION C.L. No. 12/ 2002 (Computer) Dated 21st March, 2002 As you are aware, the project of that the District Court Computerisation is being given top priority by the Hon'ble Court and under the project, some terminals have been installed at the Centralised Computer Centre where the work on administrative and judicial sides is to be started without any further delay. With the facility of Video Conferencing through DAMA (RAS) V-SAT available in Collectorate office of each District the E-Mail and Internet facility in the District Courts is being provided by the NIC through satellite which will not only speed up the access to E-Mail and Internet facility directly through satellite but also make available a number of legal fields and websites to the Judicial Officers through the Internet. This facility has been made available at the Centralised Computer and Server installed at the Centralised Computer Centre in each District. The work of preparing various statements on the prescribed proforma and other Judicial and Administrative work is also being taken up in some Districts and in others, it is to be started very shortly. Training to the Court officials is also being provided by the District Informatics Officers. All this work is being done at the Centralised Computer Centre where the Centralised Computer and Server machine is installed under the umbrella of properly tested earthling. It will not only be inconvenient to shift the machine from the Centralised Computer Centre to some other place- may that be chamber of the District Judge/any other Judicial Officer- but also not advisable to shift it for safety and security purpose. Conduction of Judicial/Administrative work at the Centralised Computer Centre will also be seriously affected, if the Centralised Computer and Server are shifted therefrom. The Hon'ble Court, therefore, directs that the Main Computer and Server machine shall not be shifted from the Centralised Computer Centre to any other place without prior permission of the Hon'ble Court.