Ministry of Law and Justice of the Republic of India

04/03/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/03/2025 04:38

The Supreme Court is collaborating with the High Courts in translation of e-SCR Judgements in 18 vernacular languages

Ministry of Law and Justice

The Supreme Court is collaborating with the High Courts in translation of e-SCR Judgements in 18 vernacular languages

Posted On: 03 APR 2025 4:03PM by PIB Delhi

The Supreme Court is collaborating with the High Courts in translation of e-SCR Judgements in 18 vernacular languages. The Chief Justice of India has constituted the Artificial Intelligence Assisted Legal Translation Advisory Committee, headed by a Judge of the Supreme Court of India to monitor the translation of Supreme Court Reportable Judgements (e-SCR) into vernacular languages by using Artificial Intelligence Tools. A similar Committee has been constituted in all the High Courts, headed by a Judge of the respective High Courts.

The Artificial Intelligence Committee of the Supreme Court has been convening frequent meetings with the Artificial Intelligence Committee of the High Courts and giving directions/ suggestions for translation of Supreme Court and High Court Judgements in vernacular language by using Artificial Intelligence Tools. The Artificial Intelligence Committee of the High Courts, Law Secretary, Advocate General, the Secretary in-charge of translation department in the State have been requested to take steps for appointment of translators in every High Court for translation of Supreme Court Reportable Judgements (e-SCR) as well as the High Court judgements into vernacular/ local language of that state.

As on 28.03.2025, 36344 Supreme Court Judgments have been translated in Hindi language and 47439 Judgments of Supreme Court have been translated in other vernacular languages and uploaded on e-SCR portal with the assistance of the High Courts (Annexure-I).

Annexure-I

Details of Supreme Court Judgments translated in Hindi language and in other vernacular languages and uploaded on e-SCR portal as on 28.03.2025.

Supreme Court Vernacular Judgements Available on e-SCR Portal

Sl. No.

Local Language

No. of Judgements

Assamese

340

Bengali

3600

Garo

7

Gujarati

3361

Hindi

36344

Kannada

1942

Kashmiri

1

Khasi

4

Konkani

16

Malayalam

2996

Marathi

2628

Nepali

153

Odia

378

Punjabi

25004

Santali

51

Tamil

2808

Telugu

1659

Urdu

2491

Total

83783

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of

Law and Justice and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Shri Arjun

Ram Meghwal in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

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