New Judicial initiatives

FASTER 2.0

• Keeping up with the technology adoption to streamline the justice delivery system, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) launched the ‘FASTER 2.0’ portal recently.
• The new portal is designed to promptly inform jail authorities, trial courts, and high courts about court orders for the release of prisoners.
• The new digital facility looks to plug the delay in the present system, which currently is much time taking as as this is based on physical orders copies that are to be officially received via formal government channels before the jail authorities.
• The ‘FASTER 2.0’ portal is now live and facilitates instant communication to the concerned authorities, enhancing the efficiency of the justice system.

e-SCR portal

• In addition to the ‘FASTER 2.0’ initiative, CJI also unveiled a Hindi version of the e-SCR portal.
• This portal allows access to Supreme Court judgments in Hindi, making legal information more accessible and inclusive.
• The Supreme Court’s eSCR website that contained Hindi translations of 21,388 judgments of a total 36,068 judgments delivered so far by the Supreme Court since January 26, 1950.
  • The rest of the judgments are in the process of being translated into Hindi and would be uploaded after vetting.
• All the judgments in English are already available free of cost to judges, lawyers, litigants and the general public on eSCR portal.