The Digitalization of Legislature in India

The Digitalization of Legislature in India

After the havoc of COVID-19 and an intensure lockdown of 2 years India is bucking up it's boots more in the technology and the e-learning sector. This could be seen by the (NeGP) plan released by the Government of India standing for National e-Governance Plan under the Digital India campaign to revolutionize India and make it Techno savy. As we can infer no one can neglect the role of technology during the pandemic which has helped immensely to sustain our economy and played a major share in development of health and education sector, Be it online classes from various e-learning platform or development of health security and medical emergency apps. The e-learning has played a huge blast. Similarily we cannot neglect the emergence and importance of e-governance sector in the present Indian context where already the pendency of large number of cases is gnawing at the administration of justice. Between 2010 and 2020, pendency across all courts grew by 2.8% annually. As of September 15, 2021, over 4.5 crore cases were pending across all courts in India. Of these, 87.6% cases were pending in subordinate courts and 12.3% in High Courts. During this time setting up of virtual courts could be a great step towards digitalization even a sliver lining to the set back old inefficient Indian judiciary. Virtual Courts- a great step towards digitalization This can readily reduce the burden of number of pending cases in the Indian judiciary and would not even require more number of sitting days in the courts by giving just the legal digital access to even the remote places of India and ensuring Justice to All. 1. The resolving of disputes in the virtual environment has many advantages of its own as it can reduce the burden on the courts, save time and costs, and provide effective resolutions and their ease of access. 2. NITI Aayog has rightly claimed that India is “uniquely positioned to emerge as the epicentre for the developments in the digitisation of the legal sector” due to the need for an efficient dispute resolution system and advancements in technology. India can still make a use of the digital legal forum to emerge as a frontrunner and thanks to the almost universal dissemination of online technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the judiciary led the way with the online hearings.

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