India has to cover a long gap before the benefits of ICT can be used for effective day to day functioning of its courts. The easy task of computerization has already been achieved to some extent but the real task is still yet to be achieved. For instance, although computerization efforts are satisfactory regarding courts in India, yet until now, India does not have even a single e-court. This is because the difficult part of establishing e-courts in India has yet to be achieved.
ODR and e-courts may hold the key to growing heaps of backlog of cases in India but the political will is essential to achieve the same. In the absence of political will, we have to be satisfied by half-hearted, half-baked and failed e-governance projects alone.
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