NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is going to organise very soon first ever hackathon event in its history, in an initiative to identify innovative ideas and to explore practical propositions for refining and bringing in efficiency in the existing process from 'filing to listing' of judicial matters in the Registry.
Chief Justice of India, Justice Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud has directed to organize a 'Hackathon' event in the Supreme Court, which would be a novel event in the history of this Court.
This will be an event wherein duty holders, stakeholders and beneficiaries shall engage in collaborative brainstorming, with a goal to bring in evolution by inclusion of new methodology for upgrading the ecosystem by generating out-of-the-box open innovative ideas, a statement from the Public Relation Office stated.
The event will be organised under the supervision and guidance of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Supreme Court Judge.
The members of Supreme Court Bar Association and Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association will also be invited to participate in the event and provide insights by way of their suggestions for the improvement of the system, it said.
In addition, suggestions will also be sought from the duty holders, viz, the officers and officials of the Registry as well as law clerks deputed in the residential offices of the Chief Justice of India and the judges of Supreme Court.
The best eighteen suggestions / innovative ideas will be identified and would be accorded with the opportunity to deliver a presentation for demonstrating their vision on the idea/suggestion.
A notification in this regard would be published very soon. The procedure to apply for the event along with the link for online submission of applications would be indicated therein. The applicant/participant would be required to briefly suggest the change/innovation, which in his/her opinion, will bring further efficiency in the existing processes of filing of cases to listing thereof. The suggestions made by the participants should be within the ambit of the provisions of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013.
The first rank holder and the runner up of the Hackathon will be felicitated. Larger Hackathons are proposed to be organised in future also under the aegis of various Committees of judges of the Supreme Court on the various topics of importance for the efficient functioning of the judicial system.
