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NEW HOPE
NEW DAWN LEGAL REFORMS

he work culture of the country is
changing with the focus on owning
FREEDOM FROM Tresponsibility with transparency. To
THE COBWEB OF done away with many redundant archaic laws
realise this objective, the Government has
and has come up with new laws to make lives
ARCHAIC LAWS of people easy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
said, “In order to make a New India, we have
been developing a transparent ecosystem in
the country which is least dependant on the
Government machinery. In order to achieve it,
the rules have been simplified, and the laws
have been amended if there was a need to
amend them. And the laws have been repealed
where there was a need to repeal them.” The
e-Committee of the Supreme Court is working
towards ensuring justice at the doorsteps with
the help of e-Chalan and virtual court.

OLD LAWS SCRAPPED NEW LAWS PASSED

l Successive Governments could remove just l e-Committee of the Supreme Court has
1,301 obsolete laws which came in the way of decided to give training to lawyers to
smooth administration in 66 years, the present argue court cases via video conferencing.
Government has managed to weed out as many Lawyers will get training for e-case filing and
as 1,500 laws in six years contesting cases in virtual courts
l Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution that l Following the Centre’s decision to scrap
granted special status to Jammu & Kashmir are redundant laws as a model, Uttar Pradesh
made inoperational. Despite nationwide protests,
Chief Minister Yogi Aadityanath has made
the Citizenship (Amendment) Act came into force an announcement to prepare a proposal to
on January 10, 2020
scrap laws which are over 100-year-old
l The Government has computerised 16,845 l Chairman of e-Committee of Supreme Court
district and subordinate courts and has released
Justice D Y Chandrachood informed while
Rs 1,459.52 Crore for the implementation of the
project. The project was approved in July 2015 virtually inaugurating an e-Court in Madras
High Court that the Committee has taken the
l The Supreme Court has reportedly heard more
than 15,000 matters through video conferencing responsibility to ensure e-Service centre in
every court of the country
since the lockdown was enforced on March 23.
The Apex Court completed 100 days of virtual l Under the e-Court project, 2,927 court
court hearings and disposed of approximately premises of the country will be connected
4,300 cases till now. Around 1,022 benches were to high-speed Wide Area Network (WAN).
constituted to hear the cases and over 50,000 Work is in progress in rest of the courts
advocates appeared before the virtual courts l The number of e-Courts is being increased.
l From June 2020 to October 2020, 27 e-Lok There are two virtual courts in Delhi,
Adalats were organised in 15 states wherein 4.83 two in Maharashtra, and one each in
Lakh cases were taken up and 2.51 Lakh cases Haryana, Chennai, Karnataka, Kerala and
were disposed of resulting in the settlement of Assam. Around 30 Lakh cases were
Rs 1,409 Crore disposed of

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