Chief Justice of India inaugurates digitisation hubs in 10 districts of Odisha

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Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on 12 December virtually inaugurated District Court Digitisation Hubs (DCDH) in 10 districts of Odisha. 

Important facts

• The hubs at Angul, Bhadrak, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Keonjhar, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh and Sonepur, will take care of digitisation work of all 30 districts of the state.

• Each DCDH will be assigned the task of digitizing the surrounding districts.

• The objective of the Hub would be to digitize the disposed case records of the nearby assigned districts.

• Scanning work for the paperless courts of the nearby districts would also be taken up at the DCDH concerned.

• Initially, four District Court Digitization Centres (DCDC) were set up on a pilot basis in Cuttack, Ganjam, Sambalpur and Balasore districts on April 30, 2021.

Importance of Digitization Centers

• The digitization work done by the Orissa High Court has emerged as a model for all the High Courts in the country.

• Digitisation is the most important step towards ensuring modernisation of the judiciary, especially trial courts. 

• Digitization makes access to records easier for authorized persons and also ensures systematic information keeping, security of documents and records and reduction in the time taken to locate documents.

e-filing in courts

• The CJI also emphasised that digitisation needs to be accompanied by e-filing otherwise it would be difficult to go on digitising everything that is filed in physical form in the long run. 

• The facility of e-filing is now available to advocates or litigants even in remote areas of the State.

• The high court has decided to provide touch screen laptops to every judicial officer of the state to ensure paperless work. 

Chief Justice Orissa High Court - S Muralidhar

Chief Minister of Odisha - Naveen Patnaik