Consider the following statements about mobile courts in Uttarakhand and choose the correct answer from the options given below: 1. Under mobile e-courts project, mobile vans having facilities of court rooms, computer, printer and internet connectivity will visit villages. 2. The idea is to deliver justice at the door steps of the public living particularly in remote areas.
- (a)Only 1
- (b)Only 2
- (c)1 and 2 both
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
Correct — C, 1 and 2 both.
Statement 1 describes the hardware. A mobile e-court is a van fitted out as a working court room, carrying a computer, a printer and its own internet connection, so that a sitting can be held wherever the van stops.
Statement 2 gives the reason for that design. The object is to take the court to the litigant, instead of asking someone in a remote village to spend a day travelling to a district headquarters.
The two sentences are not rivals. One is the method, the other is the aim, and they describe the same arrangement from two sides, so the code that accepts both — 1 and 2 both — is right.
The idea worth carrying away: a mobile e-court moves the court to the litigant, rather than making the litigant travel to the court.
- (a)Only 1 — This accepts the van but rejects the purpose clause. Delivering justice at the door of people living in remote areas is precisely the object a travelling court is set up to serve, so statement 2 holds.
Only 1 is the right code for a version of this item where the equipment is described accurately but the stated aim is swapped for something else — clearing High Court pendency, say, or doing away with regular courts.
- (b)Only 2 — This accepts the aim but rejects the description of the vehicle. What statement 1 asserts is the stem's own description of the van — a court room with a computer, a printer and internet connectivity — and that is accurate for the Uttarakhand mobile e-court, so statement 1 does not fail either.
Only 2 is the right code where the purpose is stated correctly but the mechanism is misdescribed — for instance if the sentence had the judge hearing the village matter over a video link from the district court, with no vehicle travelling at all.
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2 — Rejecting both sentences leaves the scheme with no content: no way it works and no reason it exists. Both sentences match the scheme as described — statement 1 the equipment the van carries, statement 2 the object it is meant to serve.
Neither 1 nor 2 is the right code where an item invents a scheme outright, or where both the mechanism and the stated purpose misstate a real one.
Access to justice is not settled by having courts. It also depends on whether a person can physically reach one: distance, fare, a lost day's wage and difficult terrain can shut a litigant out as effectively as a legal bar.
A mobile court inverts the arrangement. The bench, the record-keeping and the connectivity travel in a vehicle to the place where the parties live, and the sitting is held there rather than at a court complex.
This sits where e-governance meets legal aid. The eCourts Project digitised case records, filing and hearings; mobile e-court vans are a state-level initiative that builds on the connectivity and digital case records that project created.
In a state whose settlements are spread across mountain valleys, the barrier facing a litigant is often the journey rather than the law itself, which is what makes a wheeled court room a serious administrative answer and not a gimmick.
- The eCourts Project is a Mission Mode Project under the National e-Governance Plan, run by the Department of Justice with the e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India.
- The Union Cabinet approved Phase III of the eCourts Project in September 2023.
- e-Sewa Kendras were opened at court complexes under the eCourts Project to help litigants who lack digital access of their own.
- Article 39A, inserted by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976, directs the State to secure equal justice and to provide free legal aid.
- The Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008 requires the Nyayadhikari to visit villages periodically and hold proceedings close to where the parties reside.
- The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 set up the legal services authorities and gave Lok Adalats statutory backing.
- Uttarakhand has 13 districts, and mountainous terrain covers the greater part of the state.
Both statements in this question describe the right-hand column — statement 1 the equipment, statement 2 the purpose.
- Reading 'mobile' as 'mobile phone'. Here the mobile element is the vehicle — the court moves, the litigant stays put.
- Marking a purpose clause false because it sounds like a press note. The sentence claims what the scheme is meant to do, not that it has already succeeded.
- Assuming a two-statement item must conceal one false sentence, and so inventing a flaw in a sentence that is simply descriptive.
- Blurring a mobile e-court into a virtual hearing. A video hearing typically needs the litigant to have a device and a connection; the van brings both with it.
- Treating a mobile e-court van, a Lok Adalat sitting and a Gram Nyayalaya visit as one thing. They share the outreach purpose but rest on different arrangements.
One shape is the statement pair used here: one sentence sets out how a scheme physically works, the other states why it exists, and each has to be judged on its own before a code is chosen.
The names behind this material are worth holding ready too. You should be able to identify the e-Committee of the Supreme Court, Article 39A and the Gram Nyayalayas Act on sight, without having to reason your way to them.
UPSC_2014_GS1_Q322014The same architecture: two statements about a service engineered to reach people in villages who cannot get to the institution — there a Business Correspondent bringing banking to branchless areas, here a van bringing the court room. In both, each statement is judged on its own before the code is picked. What differs is the sector and the level. That item concerns a nationwide banking arrangement and lists two distinct transactions a beneficiary can perform; this one concerns a judicial outreach in one state and pairs a description of equipment with a statement of purpose.
CDS_GK_2022_II_Q322022Shared idea: a public service pushed out through a digital channel to people who may not hold the infrastructure themselves. The difference is what the item actually tests. The e-RUPI question turns on technical specifications — a ceiling amount, whether a bank account is needed, whether a smartphone with internet is needed. Ours asks nothing technical; it asks only whether the description of the van and the reason given for it are accurate. A digital-delivery topic does not automatically mean a specification-checking question.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which of the following does Article 39A of the Constitution of India direct the State to secure?
- (a)Free and compulsory education for children until they complete the age of fourteen years
- (b)Equal justice and free legal aid
- (c)A uniform civil code for the citizens
- (d)The organisation of village panchayats as units of self-government
Answerb — Article 39A, a Directive Principle inserted by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1976, obliges the State to see that the legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity, and to provide free legal aid so that no citizen is denied justice by economic or other disability.Option (a) is the subject of the original Article 45, option (c) of Article 44 and option (d) of Article 40. All four are Directive Principles, which is what makes the set tempting, but only (b) is 39A.
- practice — not a real PYQ
With reference to the Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008, consider the following statements: 1. A Gram Nyayalaya is presided over by an officer designated as the Nyayadhikari. 2. The Act requires the presiding officer to visit villages within his jurisdiction periodically and to conduct proceedings there. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a)1 only
- (b)2 only
- (c)Both 1 and 2
- (d)Neither 1 nor 2
Answerc — the Act provides for a Nyayadhikari to preside over the Gram Nyayalaya, so statement 1 is accurate.It also makes the court a travelling one: the Nyayadhikari is to go periodically to the villages in his jurisdiction and hold proceedings close to where the parties live, so statement 2 is accurate too.
Both standing, (a), (b) and (d) each drop a true statement. This travelling sitting is the statutory cousin of the van in the UKPSC question.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which body was constituted to assist the Chief Justice of India in framing the national policy on computerisation of the Indian judiciary and steers the eCourts Project?
- (a)The National Legal Services Authority
- (b)The Law Commission of India
- (c)The e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India
- (d)The National Informatics Centre
Answerc — the e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India was constituted for this purpose, and it drives the eCourts Project together with the Department of Justice in the Ministry of Law and Justice.The National Legal Services Authority runs free legal aid and Lok Adalats. The Law Commission advises on law reform. The National Informatics Centre supplies technical and software support to the courts, but it is an implementing agency, not the policy body.