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2020 LOK SABHA REPLIES Budget Session – Third Session of 17th Lok Sabha [31st January, 2020 to 3rd April, 2020] INDEX Sl.No. Question Question Date Subject Division Page No. No. Type 1. 52 Starred 05.02.2020 Multilingual APP of Justice.I 1 the Supreme Court 2. 471 Unstarred 05.02.2020 District Courts NM 5 3. 483 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Judicial JR 10 Infrastructure 4. 486 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Fast Track Courts Justice.II 14 5. 551 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Fast Track Courts Justice.II 19 6. 556 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Limit on Number of NM 21 Appeals 7. 594 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Shortage of Court JR Desk 22 Rooms 8. 657 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Judicial Vacancies Appointment 25 Division 9. 666 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Legal Assistance LAP 27 10. 670 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Pending cases in NM 29 Bombay High Courts 11. 686 Unstarred 05.02.2020 Pending Court NM 31 Cases 12. 193 Starred 04.03.2020 Indian Judicial NM 37 Service 13. 196 Starred 04.03.2020 Vacancies in NM 41 various Courts 14. 198 Starred 04.03.2020 Law Reports Coordination 43 15. 2114 Unstarred 04.03.2020 Legal Services to LAP/A2J 45 Victims of Acid Attacks 16. 2123 Unstarred 04.03.2020 SC/STs (Prevention Justice.II 48 of Atrocities) Act 17. 2136 Unstarred 04.03.2020 High Court Benches Appointment 50 in Odisha Division 18. 2180 Unstarred 04.03.2020 Special Court to try Justice.II 52 offences against Women 19. 2183 Unstarred 04.03.2020 Village Courts JR Desk 56 20. 2201 Unstarred 04.03.2020 Setting up of New Appointment 58 High Court Bench Division 21. 2251 Unstarred 04.03.2020 Pending Rape Cases Justice.II 60 in Courts Sl.No. Question Question Date Subject Division Page No. No. Type 22.` 2273 Unstarred 04.03.2020 Family Courts Justice.II 65 23. 258 Starred 11.03.2020 Engagement of Justice.II 67 Consultants 24. 2764 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Posts of Judges Appointment 73 Vacant in High Division Court 25. 2770 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Village Courts JR Desk 75 26. 2783 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Pending Court NM 79 Cases 27. 2790 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Indian Judicial NM 81 Service 28. 2791 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Delay in Justice NM 84 29. 2856 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Special Court to Justice.II 90 deal with Crime against Women 30. 2860 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Use of Local Justice.I 93 Language in Courts 31. 2909 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Infrastructure JR Desk 94 Facility in Judiciary 32. 2916 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Affordable Justice NM 96 33. 2925 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Free and Prompt LAP/A2J 99 Justice 34. 2948 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Committee for NM 101 Judicial Reforms 35. 2953 Unstarred 11.03.2020 High Court Bench in Appointment 105 UP Division 36. 2970 Unstarred 11.03.2020 Speedy Justice LAP/A2J 107 37. 3934 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Lok Adalats LAP/A2J 109 38. 3947 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Holidays in Courts Justice.I 114 39. 3971 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Disposal of Criminal NM 116 and Civil Cases 40. 3977 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Tele Law Scheme A2J/LAP 118 41. 3980 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Recusal by Judges NM 120 42. 3990 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Judicial Panels Justice.I 121 43. 4017 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Hardships faced by NM 122 Advocates 44. 4038 Unstarred 18.03.2020 Collegium on Appointment 127 Appointment and Division Transfer of Judges GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LOKSABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 52 TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE os" FEBRUARY, 2020 MULTILINGUAL APP OF THE SUPREME COURT t*S2 SHRI ANIL FIROJIYA: SHRI MOHANBHAI KAYANJI KUNDARIYA: Will the Minister of LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state: a) the time by which the new app 'Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad Software' launched by the Supreme Court of India is likely to become functional; b) the number of languages in which the app is going to provide updates about the legal proceedings; c) whether the provisions are also in place to make the information accessible to the visually impaired; d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and e) whether any other new digitization initiative is being taken to increase the access to legal information by all the citizens of the country including print disabled citizens in near future and if so, the details thereof? ANSWER MINISTER OF LAW AND JUSTICE, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD) (a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House. 1 - t:.. STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. 52 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 05.02.2020. (a) With a view to enable common people of India to understand the judgments of Supreme Court in easy manner in local languages, SUVAS (Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad Software) has been developed as a path breaking initiative by the Supreme Court of India in collaboration and with technical support from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India aided by experts from liT and lilT. This pilot development of SUVAS is at present in testing, training and refinement phase in 18 High Courts in the country. The work covers translating judgments related to cases arising under the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India in relation to the following subject categories: 1. Labour matters; 2. Rent Act matters; 3. Land Acquisition and Requisition matters; 4. Service matters; 5. Compensation matters; 6. Criminal matters; 7. Family Law matters; 8. Ordinary Civil matters; 9. Personal Law matters; 10. Religious and Charitable Endowments matters; 11. Simple money and Mortgage matters; 12. Eviction under the Public Premises(Eviction) Act matters; 13. Land Laws and Agriculture Tenancies; and 2 14. Matters relating to Consumer Protection. The translation is functional from English language into Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu languages. Once the pilot phase of testing, training and refinement, as mentioned above, is completed, and the facility becomes functional, it would be rolled out fully in the relevant High Courts. (b) The Official Multilingual Mobile App of Supreme Court of India, provides updates about the legal proceedings in six languages i.e. English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. (c) & (d) At present the Official Mobile App of Supreme Court is not separately equipped with accessibility of information to visually impaired. (e) Through computerization of 16,845 District & Subordinate Courts and ICT enablement under the eCourts Project Phase-II, several services have been provided to litigants, lawyers and Judiciary which facilitate expeditious delivery of judicial services. eCourts services such as details of case registration, cause list, case status, daily orders & final judgments are available to litigants and advocates through eCourts web portal, Judicial Service Centers (JSC) in all computerized courts, eCourts Mobile App, email service, SMS push & pull services. Integration of eCourts Services through Common Service Centers (CSCs) has been successfully completed. eCourt CNR Service has been enabled through Digital Seva Portal in all CSC locations across the country. National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) for District & Subordinate Courts, created as an online platform under the Project, provides information relating to judicial proceedings/decisions of computerized district and subordinate courts of 3 I .,:,' . the country. Currently, all stakeholders including Judicia! Officers can access case status information in respect of over 12.97 crore pending and disposed cases and more than 11.'15 crore orders I judgments pertaining to' these computerized courts. Video Conferencing facility has been enabled between 3240 court complexes & 1272 corresponding jails. 4 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW & JUSTICE .: .. a DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LOKSABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 471 TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE os= FEBRUARY, 2020. District Courts 471. SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH alias PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR SHRI SANJAY JADHAV: Will the Minister of LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state: (a) the number of district courts, district-wise, across the country including the State of Maharashtra and number of cases pending in those courts at present; (b) whether the Government proposes a new plan to provide justice to people related to those pending cases; and (c) if so, the details thereof? ANSWER MINISTER OF LAW & JUSTICE, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD) (a): The District and Subordinate Courts are set up by the State Governments in consultation with concerned High Courts. As per information available on the web-portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) as on date, there are 3206 Court Complexes in 633 Districts in the country. As per information available on the web-portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) as on 29.01.2020, about 3.19<0crore cases are pending in various District and Subordinate. Courts. Statement of number of pending cases in District and Subordinate Courts as on 29.01.2020 is given in the Annexure. (b) & (c): Disposal of cases in courts is within the domain of the judiciary. Government has no role in disposal of cases in courts. However, the Union Government is committed to speedy disposal of cases and reduction in pendency of cases. The 5 National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms has.adopted many strategic initiatives, including improving infrastructure [court halls and residential units] for Judicial , c _ Officers of District and Subordinate Courts, leveraging Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for better justice delivery, filling up of vacant positions of Judges in High Courts and Supreme Court, reduction in pendency through follow up by Arrears Committees at District, High Court and Supreme Court level, emphasis on Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) and initiatives to fast track special type of cases.