Parliament Question: e-Courts Mission Mode Project

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2360 ANSWERED ON - 12/03/2026 E-COURTS MISSION MODE PROJECT 2360 SHRI NARAYANA KORAGAPPA:

SHRI MANAN KUMAR MISHRA:

SHRI ADITYA PRASAD:

SHRI GHANSHYAM TIWARI:

DR. PARMAR JASHVANTSINH SALAMSINH:

SHRI KESRIDEVSINH JHALA:

Will the Minister of Law and Justice be pleased to state:

(a) the status of implementation of e-Court Mission Mode Project;

(b) the number of operational e-courts in the country, State-wise;

(c) the number of operational e-courts in Odisha, Rajasthan and Karnataka, district-wise; and

(d) the details of funds released and utilized under the project, State-wise? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE; AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS (SHRI ARJUN RAM MEGHWAL)

(a): The e-Courts Mission Mode Project is being implemented in a phased manner across the country with the objective of strengthening the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the judicial system. Phase I (2011 – 2015) was primarily focused on basic computerization and internal connectivity in courts. As a result, 14,249 Courts were computerized and Local Area Network (LAN) was installed at 13,683 courts.

Phase II (2015 – 2023) focused on ICT facilitation of judicial services to citizens. The components included computer hardware, computerization of District State Legal Authority

(DSLAs)/ Taluka Legal Services Committees (TLSCs), Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity, trainings of stakeholders, establishment of eSewa Kendra, etc. An advanced CIS software, National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) and systems for digital filing and payments were 1developed, which revolutionized the way public accessed the services provided by the judiciary.

The e-Courts Project is currently in Phase III (2023-2027). During the last year, the e- Courts project has seen continued progress through expansion of e-filing, e-payments, increased adoption of virtual and hybrid hearings, digitisation of court records, strengthening of Case Information System, and enhanced public access to case information through the NJDG etc. Some key initiatives and achievements under the eCourts Project as on 31.01.2026 are as

under:

(i) Over 660.36 crore pages of court records including legacy records have been digitized across Courts to ensure faster retrieval, secure storage and seamless digital workflows.

(ii) 30 Virtual Courts have been established to enable online adjudication of traffic challans.

Virtual Courts have received 10.13 crore challans, out of which 9.05 crore were disposed and 97.72 lakh challans were paid amounting to Rs. 1002.73 crore.

(iii) Video Conferencing Rules has been implemented in all the High Courts and District Courts.

(iv) Video Conferencing (VC) facilities have been expanded across 3,240 court complexes and 1,272 jails. Courts have conducted over 3.97 crore hearings through video conferencing, facilitating remote hearings of undertrials, witnesses and lawyers.

(v) Live streaming of court proceeding is operational in 11 High Courts.

(vi) E-filing and e-payments systems have been implemented to allow online filing of cases and digital payment of court fees and fines. Approximately 1.07 crore cases have been filed through the e-filing platform and the e-payments system has processed transactions for court-fee worth Rs. 1,404 crore and fine worth Rs. 75 crore.

(vii) NJDG provides public access to case data, statistics of courts across the country and has been upgraded with an improved dashboard, functioning as a monitoring tool, to identify, manage & reduce pendency of cases.

(viii) Case Information System (CIS) 4.0 has been implemented in all courts, with enhanced usability, privacy safeguards and integration with national platforms such as NJDG, e- filing, virtual courts and Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS).

(ix) The S3WaaS (Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service) platform hosts 730 District Court websites, ensuring secure and accessible web infrastructure.

(x) Real-time digital services have expanded significantly, with case updates being sent to lawyers and litigants through SMS Push and Pull (over 4 lakh SMS sent daily), email 2(over 6 lakh sent daily) and the multilingual e-Courts services portal (with 35 lakh hits daily).

(xi) The e-Courts Services mobile app (3.59 crore downloads) provides the lawyers and litigants relevant information about case status, cause lists etc.

(xii) The JustIS app (22,133 downloads) is a management tool for the judges assisting them to effectively organise and monitor their judicial business.

(xiii) 48 e-Sewa Kendras are functional across all High Courts and 2,396 e-Sewa Kendras across District Courts.

(xiv) The National Service and Tracking of Electronics Processes (NSTEP) system has been implemented for electronic service and tracking of summons and notices using mobile- based and GPS-enabled delivery mechanisms. Under NSTEP, the courts have processed

7.29 crore e-processes, out of which 2.11 crore e-processes have been successfully delivered.

(xv) Digital Courts 2.1 is a customized application for paperless Courts with facility of translation and transcription using AI. It enables judges to access all case related documents, pleadings, and evidence digitally, marking a significant leap toward a paperless court ecosystem.

(b): The details of number of operational eCourts in the country, State-wise, is at Annexure-I.

(c): The details of number of operational eCourts in Odisha, Rajasthan and Karnataka, District- wise, is at Annexure-II.

(d): The details of funds released and utilized of Phase II and Phase III under the e-Courts Project, High court-wise and year-wise, are at Annexure-III and Annexure-IV respectively.

The implementing agency during Phase I was NIC (National Informatics Centre), therefore funds were not released to the High Courts. *** 3Annexure- I STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2360 FOR 12.03.2026 REGARDING E-COURTS MISSION MODE PROJECT Details of number of operational eCourts in the country, state-wise:

Total Total Court Total S No State Districts Complexes Establishments 1 Andaman and Nicobar 4 4 4 2 Andhra Pradesh 13 195 368 3 Arunachal Pradesh 28 28 28 4 Assam 34 80 201 5 Bihar 38 83 268 6 Chandigarh 1 1 3 7 Chhattisgarh 25 93 204 8 Delhi 11 12 51 9 Goa 2 16 15 10 Gujarat 33 338 467 11 Haryana 22 61 158 12 Himachal Pradesh 11 53 127 13 Jammu and Kashmir 20 83 169 14 Jharkhand 24 24 132 15 Karnataka 31 206 547 16 Kerala 14 192 600 17 Ladakh 2 6 10 18 Lakshadweep 1 3 6 19 Madhya Pradesh 51 237 277 20 Maharashtra 41 510 721 21 Manipur 9 22 39 22 Meghalaya 14 18 61 23 Mizoram 3 12 26 24 Nagaland 11 12 34 25 Odisha 30 155 316 26 Puducherry 4 4 15 27 Punjab 22 68 200 28 Rajasthan 44 336 1098 29 Sikkim 6 11 34 30 Tamil Nadu 38 277 832 31 Telangana 33 125 263 The Dadra And Nagar Haveli 32 3 4 3 And Daman And Diu 33 Tripura 8 21 68 34 Uttarakhand 13 92 190 35 Uttar Pradesh 74 224 584 36 West Bengal 23 92 277 4Total 741 3,698 8,396 (Source: eCommittee, SCI) 5Annexure- II STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2360 FOR 12.03.2026 REGARDING E-COURTS MISSION MODE PROJECT Details of number of operational eCourts in Odisha, district-wise S No District Total Establishment 1 Anugul 13 2 Balangir 15 3 Balasore 15 4 Bargarh 13 5 Bhadrak 7 6 Boudh 6 7 Cuttack 21 8 Deogarh 4 9 Dhenkanal 12 10 Gajapati 5 11 Ganjam 32 12 Jagatsinghpur 6 13 Jajpur 9 14 Jharsuguda 5 15 Kalahandi 12 16 Kandhamal 8 17 Kendrapada 8 18 Keonjhar 11 19 Khurda 11 20 Koraput 9 21 Malkangiri 5 22 Mayurbhanj 13 23 Nabarangpur 5 24 Nayagarh 12 25 Nuapada 9 26 Puri 10 27 Rayagada 10 28 Sambalpur 9 29 Sonepur 10 30 Sundargarh 11 Total 316 (Source: eCommittee, SCI) 6Details of number of operational eCourts in Rajasthan, district-wise S No District Total Establishment 1 Ajmer 36 2 Alwar 39 3 Balotra 11 4 Banswara 22 5 Baran 25 6 Barmer 14 7 Beawer 15 8 Bharatpur 30 9 Bhilwara 41 10 Bikaner 27 11 Bundi 26 12 Chittorgarh 38 13 Churu 27 14 Dausa 24 15 Deeg 20 16 Dholpur 24 17 Didwana Kuchaman 20 18 Dungarpur 17 19 Ganganagar 41 20 Hanumangarh 32 21 Jaipur District 33 22 Jaipur Metro I 30 23 Jaipur Metro Ii 25 24 Jaisalmer 14 25 Jalore 19 26 Jhalawar 28 27 Jhunjhunu 30 28 Jodhpur District 20 29 Jodhpur Metro 18 30 Karauli 22 31 Khairtal Tijara 23 32 Kota 32 33 Kotputli Behror 16 34 Merta Nagaur 19 35 Pali 33 36 Phalodi 10 37 Pratapgarh 18 38 Rajsamand 24 39 Salumber 7 40 Sawai Madhopur 22 41 Sikar 36 42 Sirohi 21 43 Tonk 31 7S No District Total Establishment 44 Udaipur 38 Total 1098 (Source: eCommittee, SCI) Details of number of operational eCourts in Karnataka, district-wise S No District Total Establishment 1 Bagalkot 19 2 Ballari 12 3 Belagavi 41 4 Bengaluru 22 5 Bengaluru Rural 21 6 Bidar 14 7 Chamrajnagar 10 8 Chikkaballapur 14 9 Chikkamagaluru 16 10 Chitradurga 14 11 Dakshina Kannada 26 12 Davangere 14 13 Dharwad 23 14 Gadag 13 15 Hassan 21 16 Haveri 17 17 Kalaburagi 19 18 Kodagu 13 19 Kolar 13 20 Koppal 12 21 Mandya 20 22 Mysuru 28 23 Raichur 14 24 Ramanagara 12 25 Shivamogga 22 26 Tumakuru 25 27 Udupi 13 28 Uttara Kannada 22 29 Vijayanagar 13 30 Vijayapura 15 31 Yadgir 9 Total 547 (Source: eCommittee, SCI) 8Annexure- III STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2360 FOR 12.03.2026 REGARDING E-COURTS MISSION MODE PROJECT Details of funds released under Phase II of the e-Courts project, High court-wise and year-wise:

(Rs. in crore) S. High Court 2015- 2016- 2017- 2018- 2019- 2020- 2021- Total No. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 1 Allahabad 31.14 20.88 20.57 8.07 15.04 13.79 0.00 109.48 2 Andhra 1.96 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.96 Pradesh 3 Bombay 30.39 38.25 47.22 0.52 0.00 8.86 0.00 125.24 4 Calcutta 12.14 9.17 10.72 0.13 0.00 4.93 0.00 37.09 5 Chhattisgarh 3.82 6.03 9.34 1.33 4.44 2.34 0.00 27.31 6 Delhi 5.87 5.41 8.97 3.54 0.00 3.00 0.00 26.80 7 Gauhati 0.59 4.33 1.37 2.85 0.98 1.52 1.26 12.90 (Arunachal Pradesh) 8 Gauhati 5.19 25.47 8.13 8.70 13.68 6.11 3.49 70.77

(Assam) 9 Gauhati 0.71 3.01 2.47 0.15 0.51 0.72 0.30 7.87

(Mizoram) 10 Gauhati 0.77 2.31 1.83 0.71 0.70 0.83 0.84 7.99

(Nagaland) 11 Gujarat* 11.23 18.32 29.06 10.73 0.00 3.48 0.00 72.82 12 Himachal 1.79 3.21 4.05 0.13 0.00 2.00 0.00 11.19 Pradesh 13 Jammu & 1.84 5.29 10.59 0.26 0.00 1.00 0.00 18.98 Kashmir and Ladakh 14 Jharkhand 3.20 5.09 2.92 4.53 5.53 2.98 0.00 24.25 15 Karnataka 11.86 17.43 22.04 0.61 9.15 4.29 0.00 65.38 16 Kerala 5.53 8.32 14.73 4.61 0.00 2.83 1.58 37.61 9S. High Court 2015- 2016- 2017- 2018- 2019- 2020- 2021- Total No. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 17 Madhya 9.73 23.93 22.51 0.39 11.21 6.28 0.00 74.05 Pradesh 18 Madras 10.24 24.62 25.45 5.11 0.00 4.73 0.00 70.15 19 Manipur 0.53 4.24 1.19 0.65 0.61 1.30 0.76 9.27 20 Meghalaya 0.19 3.26 3.65 0.62 0.92 2.32 2.23 13.17 21 Orissa 7.57 7.71 12.70 1.59 13.46 3.37 0.00 46.41 22 Patna 8.04 26.41 8.72 0.13 7.08 5.44 0.00 55.82 23 Punjab & 11.63 17.92 11.54 8.49 0.00 4.55 0.00 54.13 Haryana 24 Rajasthan 9.97 23.04 25.05 3.01 1.29 10.58 1.62 74.56 25 Sikkim 0.18 1.80 1.40 0.80 1.61 1.01 0.77 7.58 26 Telangana & 13.90 14.31 33.95 8.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 70.29 Andhra Pradesh** 27 Telangana 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.79 0.00 1.79 28 Tripura 1.20 4.38 2.86 1.77 2.24 4.44 0.96 17.86 29 Uttarakhand 2.98 2.66 4.60 0.13 0.00 1.28 0.00 11.65 Total (in Cr.) 202.23 326.79 347.65 77.71 88.44 107.74 13.81 1164.37 * Gujarat High Court surrendered Rs.13.12 Cr. Total utilization included surrendered funds.

** Funds released to erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and Telangana High Court; shared in the ratio of 58:42 respectively.

Note: In addition to the funds released to High Courts, Rs 180.57 crore were released to NIC for providing technical support, Rs 293.68 crore to BSNL for WAN (Wide Area Network) connectivity, Rs 13.50 crore to eCommittee, SCI under Change Management and Rs 16.31 crore for miscellaneous expenditure (salary, office expenses, publicity, etc).

10Annexure- IV STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2360 FOR 12.03.2026 REGARDING E-COURTS MISSION MODE PROJECT Details of funds released under Phase III of the e-Courts project, High court-wise and year-

wise: (Rs. in crore) S. No. High Court 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 1 Allahabad 95.87 51.78 119.92 2 Andhra Pradesh 25.44 31.74 18 3 Bombay 69.54 83.19 104.32 4 Calcutta 16.73 27.65 9.50 5 Chhattisgarh 16.27 24.17 49.74 6 Delhi 17.89 48.19 17.90 7 Gauhati (Arunachal Pradesh) 2.03 9.76 2.26 8 Gauhati (Assam) 24.97 33.85 3.65 9 Gauhati (Mizoram) 3.12 6.22 2.48 10 Gauhati, Kohima (Nagaland) 1.79 3.91 3.41 11 Gujarat 27.72 73.21 48.89 12 Himachal Pradesh 6.06 6.89 7.63 13 Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh 6.52 14.53 14.48 14 Jharkhand 10.59 29.22 7.65 15 Karnataka 32.37 67.40 48.22 16 Kerala 15.40 32.62 51.60 17 Madhya Pradesh 22.90 77.31 59.14 18 Madras 90.69 91.75 113.20 19 Manipur 11.12 7.54 2.16 20 Meghalaya 3.33 8.50 3.83 21 Orissa 6.77 53.24 16.09 22 Patna 32.43 89.55 57.61 23 Punjab And Haryana 14.58 26.01 18.95 24 Rajasthan 19.80 34.72 60.88 25 Sikkim 1.71 8.98 2.51 11S. No. High Court 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 26 Telangana 22.03 28.57 29.44 27 Tripura 0.53 7.05 8.79 28 Uttarakhand 13.68 19.95 29.57 Total 611.88 997.49 911.82* * As on 03.03.2026

Note: In addition to the funds released to High Courts, Rs. 185.06 crore have been released to NIC for providing technical support, Rs 54.79 crore to BSNL for WAN (Wide Area Network) connectivity, Rs 7.51 crore to eCommittee, SCI under Change Management, Rs 0.28 crore to IIT Madras for development of e-Learning platform, and Rs 9.60 crore for miscellaneous expenditure (salary, office expenses, publicity, etc).

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