'Impedes Access To Information': High Court Directs Delhi Labour Dept To Ensure Uploading Of Orders Passed By Employee Compensation Commissioners

The Delhi High Court has directed the Labour Department of the Delhi Government to ensure that orders passed by the Employee Compensation Commissioners are uploaded within a period of three or four working days on the portal of the Labour Department.

Justice Pratibha M Singh added that non-compliance of the said direction would be dealt with strictly.

"Such occurrences severely impede access to information relating to the proceedings before the authorities, delay the implementation of orders and further disable parties from availing legal remedies," the Court said.

The Court was dealing with a plea filed by a company alleging that it was never served with the order in the proceedings before the Commissioner, Employees Compensation, New Delhi.

Pursuant to the directions of the Court, Additional Labour Commissioner of the Delhi Government filed an affidavit submitting that it had issued an order directing all the Commissioner Employee's Compensation to send the soft copy of the order to System Analyst for uploading the same on the website of Labour Department.

In view of this, the Court said:

"Thus, pursuant to the orders passed by this Court, steps are stated to have been taken for uploading of orders within three to four days. The uploading of orders is essential in order to ensure that litigants and lawyers are able to view and obtain orders without any inconvenience."

"It is accordingly directed that the Department shall ensure that the orders passed by the Employee Compensation Commissioners are uploaded within three to four working days on the portal of the Labour Department."

The matter will now be heard on December 3.

Title: MS KAMLA BHEL CO PVT LTD v. SMT SUNITA MEHTA & ORS.

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