Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 17: Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Sanjay Dhar has constituted a committee of five persons on e-connectivity issue.
When the matter was taken-up, Shaleen Kabra, Home Secretary, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir was present through video conferencing. The issue of difficulties being faced in e-connectivity in both the wings of the High Court was discussed.
Shaleen Kabra pointed out that there could be many reasons for the same. Amongst the reasons, the difficulties in the e-connectivity as pointed out are lease-line issues; needs of enhancement of lease-line bandwidth; optimal utilization of the software, distribution of bandwidth amongst different users which has not been optimally affected.
One more reason suggested by Kabra for poor e-connectivity was possible misuse of the available bandwidth. He made valuable suggestion that an audit needs to be first undertaken of the facilities which are in existence and which are required to be urgently added.
After hearing Home Secretary in length, Division Bench constituted a committee consisting of the Shaleen Kabra, Home Secretary, Shahzad Azeem, Registrar (IT), J&K High Court, Abhay Kumar, SIO, NIC, Sanjeev Tyagi, Nodal Officer, BSNL and Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Jammu or an expert to be nominated by him from NIELIT to examine the issues and make recommendations.
The DB further directed that the committee shall undertake a proper audit of the facilities before making their report and the meetings of the committee may be held on video conference.
He further said that all information as may be needed for effective assessment by the members of the committee shall be made available by Shabir Malik, CPC, J&K High Court and Umesh Sharma, Civil Judge (Senior Division), Leave Reserve, High Court of J&K.
DB further directed that the reports of the committee shall at the first instance be placed before the Chairperson of IT Committee of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir for his consideration. Shahzad Azeem, Registrar (IT) shall place the observations of the Chairperson, IT Committee along with the final report before this court on the next date of hearing and Members of the Committee shall remain present in court through video conferencing on the next date as well.
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