Strengthened Access to Justice in India, (SAJI-I) is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Department of Justice (DoJ), Government of India. Mandate of the project is to prepare a design to provide easy, cost effective justice to the poor and marginalized in India. SAJI Phase I was the design phase of a bigger initiative for the future.

Through a concerted effort with the civil society and the government a partnership on justice sector programming has been forged to prepare strategies.  One of the important interventions in the last 12 months has been to create an electronic database relating to a range of institutions that are connected with the formal justice system in the country.

This resource directory is a tool to facilitate speedy access to justice sector institutions for the ordinary citizens by creating and providing effective and reliable information through a dynamic single window system in this country. With easy and accessible information it promotes further interaction between the users and the justice providers attempting to make the system transparent and accountable. The database provides information relating to formal justice delivery institutions including the courts, prisons, police, prosecutors, national / state / district / Taluk Legal Aid services authorities, Bar council and Bar associations, Human Rights Institutions, NGOs offering a varieties of legal aid services, Human rights organizations, Shelter / Rehabilitation homes, Hospitals etc.

While preparing the database it was also envisaged that there would be two phases: the first phase would strive to collect communications and other relevant information of all the institutions and start constructing the data base. While in the second phase it will focus on promoting the data base and facilitating access to it by the general public, particularly those who are vulnerable and marginalised.

The present data base contains information on 333 districts across 19 states of the country. However, the information made available cannot be considered as complete for a number of reasons. This new initiative needs to go through a rigorous process of data verification and fine-tuning. The next phase of the project would have accomplished all those requirements in addition to having information of the remaining 291 districts to fulfill the requirements of the 614 districts in India.  

Those in pursuit of providing support to the poor and marginalized in accessing justice are welcome to use the information made available in this electronic database. If there are any problems encountered while accessing this system, please do not hesitate to provide suggestions and feedback.  There are multiple search options to locate institutions by state and districts.

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