Centre to create national data grid for cases across 16 tribunals, panels
A repository of cases pertaining to 16 tribunals and appellate bodies will be created under a new law aimed at bringing uniformity in appointments to various such panels.
The Tribunals Reforms Bill, which was passed by Parliament recently and will come into force on a day to be decided by the government, provides for a National Tribunals Data Grid.
The bill defines the grid as a portal containing the repository of all case-related information pertaining to tribunals covered by its First Schedule.
The First Schedule names 16 tribunals and appellate tribunals.
The proposed grid is intended as a centralised information repository of cases before these bodies.
The National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), functioning on similar lines, is a comprehensive, near-real-time online database tracking orders, judgments, and case details across all tiers of the Indian judiciary.
It is managed by the e-Committee of the Supreme Court.
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