The Hindu       25.07.2012

DDA launches hi-tech tracking system

 With about 16,000 of its cases pending in various courts in the Capital and not being attended to properly, the Delhi Development Authority on Tuesday unveiled a web-based software system for monitoring the agency’s court cases.

The DDA said the system was necessitated due to time constraints faced by its officers leading to inadequate monitoring of cases as a result of which the case proceedings suffered.

“This resulted in courts granting repeated dates, in turn, resulting in delay for the organisation and petitioners. It is expected that with the system in place there will be proper monitoring and updating of the case status,” the DDA statement said.

Inaugurating the system, the DDA vice-chairman G. S. Patnaik said this was a move in the direction of “complete computerisation” but warned that officials should ensure that the updating of cases is done regularly. He said the software should also be improved as per the feedback which will be received over a period of time.

The vice-chairman also directed that important or landmark judgements should be attached with cases so that it provides good reference material for future cases.

The software is operational in all the District Courts, High Court, Supreme Court and Consumer Forums and on desktop computers at Vikas Sadan and Vikas Minar in a web-enabled mode. DDA law officers are required to update the status of the court cases and they can do so from anywhere using user IDs and Passwords allotted to them. The system will also generate weekly reports of the pendency of cases, weekly status of all court cases where the date of hearing is due. Reminders and reports will also be available in the system so that proper monitoring of the cases can be done.

To monitor its 16,000 pending cases in courts