ICT Initiatives – High Court of Bombay

Software Developed by High Court of Bombay Related to adjudication and court working

Peripheral software developed at High Court of Bombay

• Order and Judgement uploading
• Certified Copy module
• Finance and Accounts Management System
• Report Builder
• SMS eMail Module for litigants and lawyers
• Litigation Management System of cases filed by or against High Court of Bombay
• Display Board System
• (Farad Order) Order Template generation for PA PS
• Customized cause list printing (LIPI Printers)
• Inward outward module
• Bank Guarantee Renewal Reminder System
• Case Indexing for accessing digitized records
• Court Receiver Information Module integrated with CIS
• Court Receiver Accounting and Management of Fixed Deposits Module
• Accounts Module for Official Assignee
• Different Statistical Reports (more than 25 reports)

Other Software relating to Digitization (New Initiative)

• BHC Ingestion (workflow of scanning and bookmarking)
• BHC Interact (Accessing digitized case files for Hon’ble Judges and other staff of the Court)

Software relating to Court working with public interface (New Initiative)

• Auto verification of advocates and law firms from data maintained by Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa.
• Relief based and valuation-based Court Fee Calculator
• E-Copying (For HC and DC In Progress)

Related to Administration (Existing Initiatives)

• Recruitment Portal for District Judge and Civil Judges
• Recruitment Portal for Clerks and Stenos
• JO Portal
• Judges PIS (Personal Information System)
• Vigilance Module consisting of information of Judges
• Inspection Statistical Returns Module
• ACR Module
• Assets and Liabilities Module
• Departmental Examination Module

Related to Administration (New Initiatives)

• Transfer choice Automation, JO Journey Mapping and AGT.
• Recruitment Portal for Programmers and developers with eKYC and full automation for screening of candidates
• Recruitment Portal for Data entry operators with eKYC and full automation for screening of candidates
• Help Desk BHC (Automated hardware and software service request assignment and resolution)
• eMail Automation (Automated workflow and approval for Creation for all employees of High Court and District Courts)

New Initiatives other than software

1. Indigenously designed Hybrid Video Conferencing Solution in all 60 Courts (The system uses existing Public Address Audio system installed in the Court which saved almost 30 crores compared to new solution with all facilities. Comparative table annexed for quick reference)
2. eFiling at High Courts
3. eFiling at District Courts
4. eFiling at Special Court (TORTS) (About to be deployed)
5. paperless processing and objection removal of efiled cases at High Court
6. workflow for making available digitized files to the Department and the Registry for objection, scrutiny, processes and the like work.

New Initiatives for District and Taluka Courts

• ePay integration with SBI ePay for 690 Court Establishment with (eCourts Digital Payment)
• PoS Point of Sale machine integration with 690 Court Establishments for enabling UPI and Card based payments.
• Virtual Court (four different courts for four regions) integrated with One State One Challan System of Government of Maharashtra.
• Monthly Planner for District Court Committees for Planning Monitoring and Administration. DPC and DCC Handbook (Data Driven Actions using NJDG Management Tools and CIS Reports)

Source : e-Committee, Supreme Court of India