Over 1.6 Lakh Lawyers, Judges, And Court Staffers Trained Online By Supreme Court E-Committee During Pandemic Period

A press release to this effect has been issued by the Supreme Court e-Committee, which further states that the participants of the programme included Advocates, High Court Judges, Judges of District Judiciary, Court Staff, Master Trainers among Judges/DSAs, Technical Staff of High Court.

The highlights of the training programme are as follows: -

• Nationwide Court staff training programme: The programme covered one staff from each court throughout the country and technical staff trained 69862 people in total. The entire court staff training was carried as per the e-committee training TOT module with the inhouse DSA master trainers among staffs as the trainers.
• Webinar for Advocates: During the pandemic four Webinars were conducted for the Advocates by the e-committee in coordination with the Bar associations of various states like Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu which reached a total of 96775 views.
• Reaching out to the High court Judges: The e-committee training programme also reached out to the High court Judges through the workshop on NJDG as Court and case management tool for High court Judges in coordination with the Madhya Pradesh High court and Patna high court.
• Advocate Master trainer programme: The member (Human resources) of e-committee Ms. R. Arulmozhiselvi stated that for the year 2021, as per the directions of the Chairperson of e-committee, nearly 5000 advocate Master trainers would be trained and through them, the e-courts related training and awareness programme aims to reach all the Advocates from High court bar association to the District and taluk Bar association before May 2021.

It may be noted that the Supreme Court e-Committee is the governing body charged with overseeing the e-Courts Project conceptualized under the "National Policy and Action Plan for Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Indian Judiciary-2005."

Significantly, the e-Courts is a pan India project monitored and funded by the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. Its vision is to transform the judicial system of the country by ICT enablement of courts.