can now better manage the cases and pendency through the new njdg which has elastic search facility high courts have to do process reengineering and take full advantage of the computerisation of courts by being proactive said justice lokur at present the seniormost judge in the apex court after the chief justice of india said in an exclusive chat with toithe efiling facility is available and operational and with security audit in delhi high court for several types of disputes a young advocate nivedita nair who practices in delhi said that it is compulsory in delhi hc to file commercial suits and certain matters related to arbitration only through the efiling portal making the process paperless it is quite easy to efile these suits by submitting a compact disc cd of scanned copy of the suit for uploading but it can be done only at specified counters on the hc premises and only by registered lawyers but hard copies of the suit still has to be served on the opposite side thus not entirely saving on paperin the bombay hc say that barring briefly in august 2013 when it was launched lawyers do not recall using efiling facility it was only for company disputes even then the registry in bombay hc has to be given scanned documents of certain types of commercial disputes on a pen drive along with hard copies of the suits being filed said advocates abhijeet desai and hitesh jain jain said people are still to come to terms with the switch to paperless filing also the infrastructure and ecosystem must be available and robustwhile efiling of cases is still playing catch across high courts ecourts seeks to dissolve distances for litigants the project using free and open source software is ranked as top five mission mode projects in india quicker delivery of court services including case status information next date orders proceedings online judgment copies are what litigants and lawyers will be offered through ecourts services with efficient access to case information anytime anywhere the goal the project seeks to place all details of a case documents and orders online and to allow epayment of court fees a litigant sitting in mumbai can at a click find out what stage of trial or hearing his or her case may be in say before a district court in kolhapur or tripura including the schedule of dates and processes feeding in data in the second phase of the project of cases filed disposed or pending before all courts in the subordinate judiciary including magistrates family courts industrial courts small causes courts taluka and district courts now allows ordinary litigants from talukas to cities alike to even access details of their cases on the go on data enabled cell phones it has the potential of empowering litigants and enables them as well as courts to monitor the case progress data bifurcated into age of pendency will allow courts to devise ways to ensure cases pending for over a decade