PM Modi to attend Constitution Day celebrations; launch new initiatives

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in Constitution Day celebrations in the Supreme Court on Saturday his office saidSince 2015 November 26 is observed as Constitution Day to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly in 1949 Earlier the day was observed as Law DayDuring the programme the prime minister will launch new initiatives under the ecourt project a statement from the Prime Ministers Office PMO said on FridayThe ecourt project is an effort to provide services to litigants lawyers and the judiciary through information and communication technology enabled courts the statement pointed out The initiatives being launched by Prime Minister Modi include virtual justice clock JustIS mobile app 20 digital court and S3WaaS websitesThe virtual justice clock is an initiative to exhibit vital statistics of the justice delivery system at the court level giving the details of cases instituted cases disposed and pendency of cases on day week and month basis at the court levelAlso Read Shraddha Walkar murder case should be heard by fasttrack court Ajit PawarThe effort is to make the functioning of courts accountable and transparent by sharing with the public the status of case disposalPeople can access the virtual justice clock of any court establishment on any district court websiteThe JustIS Mobile App 20 is a tool available to judicial officers members of the lower judiciary for effective court and case management by monitoring pendency and disposal of not only their court but also for individual judges working under themThis app is available to high court and Supreme Court judges who can now monitor pendency and disposal of all states and districts under their jurisdictionDigital court is an initiative to make court records available to judge in a digitised form to enable the transition to paperless courtsThe S3WaaS website is a framework to generate configure deploy and manage websites for publishing specified information and services related to district judiciary It is a cloud service developed for government entities to generate secure scalable and sugamya accessible websitesIt is multilingual citizen friendly and divyang pople with special needs friendlyOfficials said the event will also be addressed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and senior judges of the Supreme CourtThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever