- The Chief Justice of India announced the onboarding of the Supreme Court on the
National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) in open court. - The NJDG portal is a national repository of data relating to cases instituted, pending and
disposed of by the courts across the length and breadth of the country. - In this portal, one may access case-related information, statistics such as institution,
pendency, and disposal of cases, case types, and year-wise break-up of the Supreme
Court of India. - It Is a database of orders, judgements, and case details of 18,735 District & Subordinate
Courts and High Courts created as an online platform under the e-Courts Project. - It has been developd by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in close coordination with
the in-house software development team of the Computer Cell, Registry with an
interactive interface and analytics dashboard. - The entire database will be periodically updated on the NJDG portal.
- NJDG works as a monitoring tool to identify, manage, & reduce the pendency of cases.
- It helps to provide timely inputs for making policy decisions to reduce delays in disposing
of cases and reduce case pendency. - It also facilitates better monitoring of court performance and systemic bottlenecks and,
thus, serves as an efficient resource management tool. To track cases related to land
disputes.
