Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the Supreme Court of India on Sunday at the Supreme Court auditorium.
Unveiling the 75th year of the Supreme Court, he will also launch citizen-centric information and technology initiatives that include Digital Supreme Court Reports (Digi SCR), Digital Courts 2.0 and the new website of the Supreme Court. He will address the gathering on the occasion.
The Digital Supreme Court Reports (SCR) will make Supreme Court judgments available to the citizens of the country free of cost and in electronic format. The key features of digital SCR are that all 519 volumes of the Supreme Court reports since 1950, covering 36,308 cases, shall be available in a digital format, bookmarked, user friendly, and with open access.
Digital Courts 2.0 application is a recent initiative under the e-Courts project to make court records available to the Judges of the district courts in the electronic form. This is coupled with use of artificial intelligence (AI) for transcribing speech to text on a real time basis.
PM Modi will also launch the new website of the Supreme Court. The new website will be in bilingual format in English and Hindi and has been redesigned with a user-friendly interface.
After its inauguration on 28 January, 1950, the Supreme Court commenced its sittings in a part of the old Parliament building, now called Samvidhan Sadan. The Court moved into its main building in 1958. The main part of the Supreme Court buildings is shaped to project the image of scales of justice.