India 2018

384 India 2018
The second phase of the project extends over five years from 2013 to 2017.
In this phase, the project aims to build upon the achievements of previous phase
and continues to work on creation of demand for justice and ensuring its supply.
Under the project, a technical support team has also been placed with the
Department of Justice with the specific purpose of supporting the National
Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms. The second phase of the project
will continue to focus both on the demand and supply side. In terms of
geographical coverage, the project will focus efforts in 1-2 selected districts in
the eight states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh for better impact. The project
will try to ensure sustainability of results achieved in the previous phase.
Legal Affairs
fairs
Department of Legal Affairs is the nodal department for reciprocal arrangement
with foreign countries for enforcement of arbitral awards pursuant to the New
York Convention under section 44(b) of the Arbitration and Concilliation Act,
1996. The department of Legal Affairs is the Central Authority under the Hague
Convention of 1965 for service aboard of judicial and extra-judicial documents
in civil and commercial matters. Under this obligation, around 9309 requests
have been processed since May, 2014 till May, 2017.
Legal Information Management and Briefing System
In line with Digital India mission, this system digitalizes the court case details
and brings various stakeholders on a single platform. LIMBS helps to introduce
transparency as well as a sense of ownership among various stakeholders during
the entire life cycle of a court case. In a very short span, with the help of various
ministries and their nodal officers and local admins, LIMBS has captured more
than 1.36 L court cases with more than 5500 registered users, more than 14000
advocates, and 1200 courts. Number of Arbitration cases on the portal is 452.
More than 200 presentations have been made for concerned officers of the
various Ministries/Departments 62 in number.
Way Forward
Department of Legal Affairs has identified some focus areas to encourage the
principles of transparency, objectivity and accountability in its dealings with
the public in conformity, inter-alia, with the objective of good governance,
minimum government, maximum governance and ease of doing business and
reducing litigation within the framework and mandate assigned to it. Because
of the welfare nature, the size of the government is enormous. New laws and
tools are being evolved to meet new situations arising due to growth,
development, science and technology, increase in population, paraphernalia
and consciousness amongst people about their rights. In this context the
following major initiatives/reforms are proposed for vision New India-2022:-
Litigation Assessment
The Department has taken preliminary steps to formulate litigation assessment/
legal audit/guidelines to examine a case during its journey arising from a dispute