District and Subordinate Courts

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District and Subordinate Courts Application
Software Standardization
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• Why Standardization
• Local Perception of states leading to varying
• software functionality
• data schema and
• output formats
• It is therefore required to evolve common
  application software for implementation in all
  the courts.

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• Application Software
• It has two components
• Data Definition
• Processes

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• Data Definition
• Identify common minimum data to be captured in
  all courts across the country.
• Benefits are
• Integration of all the courts
• Sharing of data among courts
• Creation of national judicial grid

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• Data Definition (Contd.)
• Examples
• Will help in smooth transfer of cases from
• one court to another
• Lower courts proceeding details of a case
• could be made available to the higher court
• 3. Copy of judgments could be made available
• to judicial officers

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Processes All processes to be included for
computerization of the judicial system would
require to follow definitions as laid in CPC and
CrPC. It has also been observed that
interpretation of processes are varying among
High Courts.
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Background NIC has been associated with the
computerization of courts. There are presently
six versions of software available which are
implemented in different parts of country. These
versions are implemented in multiple states,
districts and subordinate courts. NIC has tried
to address varying definitions among the courts,
but was unable to standardize masters and report
formats.
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• Project Strategy
• The NIC will identify the various district and
  subordinate court software versions, hereafter
  referred to as application.
• 2. Identified applications will be compared in
  terms of data structures, functionality, level
  and type of users.
• Continue in next slide

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• Project Strategy (Contd.)
• 1. While comparing software versions, the aim
  would be to identify -
• Minimum common data definition.
• Mandatory processes and related data items to run
  court application.
• Additional processes as covered in functionality
  of present software versions along with their
  justification.
• Features best practices of other applications.
• A report would then be prepared on above
  comparisons.

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• Project Strategy (Contd.)
• 2. A software committee will be constituted of
  experts from legal and academic side who would
  examine the prepared comparative report.
• 3. Software committee will decide one of the
  software versions as the base application to go
  ahead with the project. This base application
  would be the one which is most advanced in
  functionality, usage, data structures, and
  success in various parts of the country.

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• Project Strategy (Contd.)
• 4. Software committee will suggest
  changes/improvements in the comparative report
  those would be carried out in the base
  application.
• 5. Software will also include list of data
  items, functionalities and report requirements
  which is super set of all the software versions
  currently running.
• 6. The application so developed will be pilot
  tested. Department of Justice e-Committee will
  organize acceptance testing of the application in
  one pilot location in each state.

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Implementation Policy a) The implementation may
start only after required setup is made ready
with respect to site preparation requirement and
required hardware and system software is
installed and sufficient stock of consumables are
made available at the proposed site . b) After
acceptance report of application software is
received from state for pilot project, roll-out
of application could be allowed for the remaining
sites in the state.
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• NICs Initiative
• Internal discussion of respective software
  groups.
• Comparative reports have been prepared showing
  processes been implemented and data which is
  being captured by these versions.
• Identified list of data items, functionalities
  and report requirements which is super set of all
  the six software versions currently running.
• Identified common minimum processes which are
  essential for day-to-day court functioning.

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• Common Minimum Modules
• Caveat Filing
• Case Filing (both Civil Criminal)
• Case Scrutiny
• Case Registration
• Case allocation
• Court proceedings
• Detail Entry
• Case Disposal
• Case Restoration
• Case transfer
• Connected Cases
• Grouping of Cases
• FIR Details
• 14. Cause List Generation
• 15. Institution Register

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• Additional Modules
• Fee and Penalty
• Documents
• Change of address
• Alternate Address
• Property EP Schedule (Attached Property)
• Probate
• Bail Cases
• Sureity Management
• MACT
• Witness
• Advocate Details
• Other Reports

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Software Versions Currently Available S/W
Version States No. of Sites
Technology Platform

Backend Front end Delhi
22 31
Oracle Oracle D2K Maharashtra
5 435
MySQL PHP PERL Andhra Pradesh
1 3 Oracle
PSP Haryana
2 3 SQL Server
ASP West Bengal 1
6 Oracle
Oracle Gujarat 1 2 MySQL
PHP PERL
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Status Comparative reports have been prepared
with Identified list of data items,
functionalities and report requirements.
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• Status
• 1. Software committee has been constituted.
• Software committee has seen the presentation of
  NIC software versions.
• Software committee has studied the comparative
  reports prepared by NIC in order to decide base
  application software.

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• Status
• Software committee has visited field sites to
  take users feedback who are operating identified
  s/w versions.
• - Pune and Delhi visit completed
• - Bangalore and Hyderabad is planned next
  month
• Pune version of software has been selected as
  base version which is to be tested in few pilot
  locations. These are
• Mumbai Chennai Cochin
• Gwalior Dehradun North-East

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• Status
• NIC is to identify features present in other
  versions but not in selected versions. Idea is to
  improve selected base version as super set of all
  the versions.
• Status It is completed.
• Identified additional modules not present in
  selected version -
• 1. Alternate Address 2. Document
  Details 3. Property Details
• 4. Probate Details 5. Execution
  Details 6. Witness Details
• 7. Bail filing Proceeding 8. Surety
  Management 9. Rent Control

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• Status
• NIC is to customize selected base application
  software for features identified in step 6. -
  Partially completed (except Property, Rent
  Control, Surety Management type of modules).
• 8. NIC is to demonstrate base application
  software to the users of identified pilot sites.
  S/W can be installed for test feedback if some
  hardware arrangements are made.
• Software has been installed at Mumbai, Chennai
  and Nainital (in Uttaranchal). Reports is awaited
  from these locations.

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• Status
• Respective High Courts have been requested to get
  the site ready with required hardware as pilot
  testing is to be completed by 31st October 2008.
• 10. NIC representatives at each High Court have
  also been requested to demonstrate selected
  version of application software to District
  Subordinate Courts official so that acceptance
  level could be understood.

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