Lok Sabha Question No. 3482 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-02
Subject: e-Court Project-WAN
Ministry: LAW AND JUSTICE
Asked by: CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI, SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI, NARANBHAI KACHHADIA, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.3482 TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 2 nd  JANUARY, 2019

## e-Court Project-WAN

## 3482. SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH  JOSHI:

SHRI SUMEDHANAND  SARSWATI:

SHRI NARANBHAI  KACHHADIYA :

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO :

## Will the Minister of LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether a contract had been awarded to BSNL to set up wide area network system under e-court Project-WAN with a cost of Rs.167 crores to provide net connectivity to 547 court complexes and 2992 district and subordinate court complexes across the country;
- (b) if so, the number of court complexes connected with WAN so far along with the State-wise details of the remaining courts ;
- (c)  whether this has expedited the judicial process; and
- (d)  if  so,  the  percentage  by  which  the  judicial  process  has  gathered momentum as a result thereof?

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR LAW & JUSTICE AND

## ANSWER CORPORATE AFFAIRS (SHRI P. P. CHAUDHARY)

(a) to  (d): Yes.  A  contract  has  been  awarded  to  BSNL  to  set  up  Wide Area  Network  (WAN)  to  connect  2992  court  complexes  across  the country.  This  includes  547  Court  Complexes  which  do  not  have  any internet  connectivity  at  present.  The  total  cost  of  the  project  is  Rs.169 crore.  The  WAN  project  is  part  of  the  larger  e-Courts  Mission  Mode Project implemented by the Government for Information and

Communication    Technology  enablement  of  district  and  subordinate courts  across  the  country,  in  association  with  the  eCommittee  of  the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India.

BSNL  submitted Circle wise Detailed Project Report (DPR) to Department of Justice. As per DPR, Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) needs to be  laid  at  all  the  2,992  project  locations.  So  far,  OFC  has  been  laid  at 2,135 court complexes. Implementation is monitored through an on-line WAN Implementation  monitoring  system  which  is  updated  on  regular basis by the different Circles of BSNL.

So far, four district and subordinate Court Complexes in Punjab and one Court  Complex  in  Rajasthan,  has  been  connected  on  WAN,  with minimum 10 Mbps bandwidth. State wise details are attached herewith at Annexure -I.

Annexure -I

| Status of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity   | Status of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity   | Status of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity   | Status of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity   | Status of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity   |
|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| Sl.No                                            | State/UT                                         | To be completed                                  | Completed                                        | Yet to be completed                              |
| 1                                                | Maharashtra                                      | 461                                              | 0                                                | 461                                              |
| 2                                                | Rajasthan                                        | 327                                              | 1                                                | 326                                              |
| 3                                                | Tamilnadu                                        | 260                                              | 0                                                | 260                                              |
| 4                                                | Madhya Pradesh                                   | 205                                              | 0                                                | 205                                              |
| 5                                                | Karnataka                                        | 198                                              | 0                                                | 198                                              |
| 6                                                | Andhra Pradesh                                   | 190                                              | 0                                                | 190                                              |
| 7                                                | Kerala                                           | 171                                              | 0                                                | 171                                              |
| 8                                                | Uttar Pradesh                                    | 169                                              | 0                                                | 169                                              |
| 9                                                | Orissa                                           | 156                                              | 0                                                | 156                                              |
| 10                                               | North East States                                | 141                                              | 0                                                | 141                                              |
| 11                                               | Telangana                                        | 106                                              | 0                                                | 106                                              |
| 12                                               | West Bengal                                      | 99                                               | 0                                                | 99                                               |
| 13                                               | Chhattisgarh                                     | 90                                               | 0                                                | 90                                               |
| 14                                               | Jammu and Kashmir                                | 84                                               | 0                                                | 84                                               |
| 15                                               | Bihar                                            | 78                                               | 0                                                | 78                                               |
| 16                                               | Punjab                                           | 67                                               | 4                                                | 63                                               |
| 17                                               | Haryana                                          | 53                                               | 0                                                | 53                                               |
| 18                                               | Uttarakhand                                      | 52                                               | 0                                                | 52                                               |
| 19                                               | Himachal Pradesh                                 | 43                                               | 0                                                | 43                                               |
| 20                                               | Jharkhand                                        | 28                                               | 0                                                | 28                                               |
| 21                                               | Delhi                                            | 6                                                | 0                                                | 6                                                |
| 22                                               | Andaman & Nicobar                                | 5                                                | 0                                                | 5                                                |
| 23                                               | Dadra Nagar Haveli                               | 1                                                | 0                                                | 1                                                |
| 24                                               | Daman and Diu                                    | 2                                                | 0                                                | 2                                                |
| Total                                            |                                                  | 2992                                             | 5                                                | 2987                                             |