New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- The digitisation of court records is a key focus of the e-Courts Project Phase III, with only 5.9 per cent of legacy judicial records digitised by 21 High Courts before the current phase, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal said.

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Meghwal said Phase III has approved a large-scale scanning and digitisation infrastructure to digitise about 3,100 crore documents, covering both old and ongoing cases.

A Digital Preservation Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) has also been prepared to guide the scanning, storage, retrieval and long-term preservation of judicial records.

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