SHILLONG, July 26: The Meghalaya e-Court Fee System was launched by Chief Justice of High Court of Meghalaya Sanjib Banerjee in the presence of Minister in charge of Law, etc., James Sangma, and High Court judges Justice HS Thangkhiew and Justice W Diengdoh at a function on the court premises here on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Justice Banerjee said the process of access to justice will be eased to a certain extent with the launch of the e-Court Fee System even as he called for the cooperation of the Bar Association as they will be the real users of the system on a daily basis.
The Chief Justice hoped that the members of the Bar Association would acquaint themselves with the new system.
Also, he expressed gratitude to the state government for its support and the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited for its participation in the process of digitisation in the state.
In his speech, James PK Sangma highlighted the salient features of the e-Court Fee System and spoke at length on the benefits of using the digital method.
Meghalaya is the 17th state in the country to implement the e-court fee collection system.
E-court fee is a web-based system of paying court fees with the facility of verification, reconciliation, locking and cancellation. This system will benefit the general public by providing easy accessibility, faster processing, online verification of genuineness of e-court fee paid, single court fee receipt of exact denomination irrespective of the amount and convenience of online payment of e-court fee from home or office.
The system will also benefit the government by providing safe and accurate collection mechanism, single-point remittance to government; besides being ideal for paperless courts as only e-court fee number has to be mentioned in the petition, it will save space, manpower and cost saving, audit trail and MIS reporting.
