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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4687
TO BE ANSWERED ON FRIDAY, THE 20TH MARCH, 2026
IMPLEMENTATION OF E-COURTS PHASE-III
4687. SHRI LAVU SRI KRISHNA DEVARAYALU:
Will the Minister of LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state:
(a) the details of the fund allocation under the Cloud Infrastructure component of e-Courts Phase-
III, including the current status of cloud migration and data storage capacity established in the
country, State-wise particularly in Andhra Pradesh;
(b) the details of the additional hardware provided to existing courts in the country, including the
number of courts equipped and the types of hardware deployed, State-wise and district-wise
especially in Andhra Pradesh; and
(c) the details of the implementation status of the Virtual Courts budget, including the number of
virtual courts operationalised and types of cases being handled, State-wise and district-wise
especially in Andhra Pradesh?
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. The Department of Justice in close coordination with the eCommittee
of Supreme Court of India is implementing the e-Courts Project in a decentralized manner through
the respective High Courts with the assistance of National Informatics Centre (NIC), as a Technical
Partner.
Phase III of the project has financial outlay of ₹7,210 crore, out of which ₹1,205.20 crore
have been earmarked under the Cloud Infrastructure component for establishment of secure and
scalable cloud-based infrastructure for hosting applications and storage of digitised court records.
Migration of e-Courts applications and related services to the cloud environment has been
1undertaken in a phased manner and all National level e-Courts services and portals have been
migrated on the National Government Cloud Infrastructure.
All High Courts have been progressively on-boarded to the National Government Cloud
infrastructure in accordance with project implementation requirements. As per the information
provided by the eCommittee, SCI, the High Court-wise details of data storage including the High
Court of Andhra Pradesh is at Annexure I.
(b): As a part of e-Courts Phase III, a total of 18,735 courts are covered under the component
“Additional Hardware to existing courts” at an outlay of ₹643.66 crore. As per the approved norms,
each courtroom is provisioned with four (4) All-in-One computer systems, one (1) scanner, four (4)
LAN nodes and four (4) digital signature tokens. Under the jurisdiction of High Court of Andhra
Pradesh, a total of 598 existing courts were provided with the additional hardware as provisioned.
(c): Under e-Courts Project, 30 Virtual Courts have been established to enable online adjudication
of traffic challans. Virtual Courts have received 10.13 crore challans and challans amounting to
₹1,002.73 crore were paid. The State-wise details are at Annexure II. At present, Virtual Courts
have not been operationalised in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
The implementation and operationalisation of Virtual Courts, including identification of
case types and locations, are undertaken by the respective High Courts in coordination with the
concerned State Governments.
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2Annexure- I
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION
NO. 4687 FOR 20.03.2026 REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF E-COURTS PHASE-III
Storage at High Court-wise and National Level:
S. No National/ High Courts Storage(TB)
Subscribed / Consumed /
Allocated Provisioned
1 National 1121 635.96
2 Allahabad High Court 36.2 7.7
3 Andhra Pradesh High Court 17.4 2.4
4 Bombay High Court 55.4 23.9
5 Calcutta High Court 23.5 0.5
6 Chhattisgarh High Court 17.2 26.68
7 Delhi High Court 22.5 11.4
8 Gauhati High Court 46.5 7
9 Gujarat High Court 28.3 10.8
10 Himachal Pradesh High Court 15.4 1.9
11 Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court 15.7 3.4
12 Jharkhand High Court 15.2 1.2
13 Karnataka High Court 31.9 11.42
14 Kerala High Court 27.4 8.3
15 Madhya Pradesh High Court 29 0
16 Madras High Court 30.7 8.2
17 Manipur High Court 10 0
18 Meghalaya High Court 10.6 3.1
19 Orissa High Court 28.6 17.54
20 Patna High Court 24.4 3.4
21 Punjab and Haryana High Court 39.8 3.3
22 Rajasthan High Court 25.2 25.06
23 Sikkim High Court 10.3 1.3
24 Telangana High Court 19.3 11
25 Tripura High Court 10.3 1.3
26 Uttarakhand High Court 15 0
Total 1726.8 826.76
(Source: eCommittee, SCI)
3Annexure- II
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION
NO. 4687 FOR 20.03.2026 REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF E-COURTS PHASE-III
Details of virtual court establishments and challans, state-wise till 31.01.2026:
Number of Challan Amount
S. No. Virtual Court Establishment Name
Challans Received Paid (In Rs.)
1 Assam (Assam Traffic Department) 2,59,154 3,18,61,203
2 Chandigarh (Virtual Court Chandigarh) 18,63,928 26,82,15,810
3 Chhattisgarh (Traffic Department) 1,59,538 1,05,41,701
4 Chhattisgarh (Transport Department) 49,875 10,90,000
5 Delhi (Notice Department) 2,66,47,752 225,95,92,556
6 Delhi (Traffic Department) 1,14,47,276 218,94,53,603
7 Gujarat (Traffic Department) 79,16,768 42,78,93,476
8 Gujarat (Transport Department) 8,67,644 33,52,45,216
9 Haryana (Traffic Department) 56,18,214 29,12,73,101
10 Himachal Pradesh (Traffic Department) 9,20,284 5,40,80,154
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
11 15,10,344 12,34,15,294
(Jammu Traffic Department)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
12 14,61,006 15,64,94,914
(Kashmir Traffic Department)
13 Karnataka (Traffic Department) 1,32,432 114,81,69,150
14 Kerala (Police Department) 52,63,846 18,24,43,442
15 Kerala (Transport Department) 15,36,188 28,34,15,611
16 Madhya Pradesh (Traffic Department) 23,17,943 5,84,55,711
17 Maharashtra (Transport Department) 56,571 31,79,007
18 Maharashtra (Traffic Department) 23 2
19 Manipur (Virtual Court - Traffic) 20,649 8,37,501
20 Manipur (Virtual Court - Transport) 6,923 4,38,000
21 Meghalaya (Traffic Department) 7,388 1,30,002
Odisha (Traffic CTC-BBSR
22 8,90,273 9,39,22,502
Commissionerate)
23 Punjab (Traffic Department) 59 100
24 Rajasthan (Traffic Department) 3,67,396 2,20,71,021
25 Tamil Nadu (Traffic Department) 2,55,761 118,67,21,050
26 Tripura (Traffic Department) 2,96,847 46,61,177
27 Uttar Pradesh (Traffic Department) 3,06,25,238 83,98,01,695
28 Uttarakhand (Traffic Department) 1,95,576 2,01,93,902
29 Uttarakhand (Transport Department) 1,65,224 2,59,40,442
30 West Bengal (Traffic Department) 4,90,659 78,39,453
Total 10,13,50,779 1002,73,76,796
(Source: eCommittee, SCI)
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