LIMBS in limbo
LEGAL Information Management & Briefing System (LIMBS) is an initiative of the Ministry of Law and Justice, implemented to monitor the court cases on behalf of the Union of India and the departments under the administrative control of the Central Government.
LIMBS have been successfully implemented in 50 ministries with 212 departments and already have captured more than 1 lakh court cases. The site can be accessed through www.limbs.gov.in.
Scope of LIMBS: The Department of Legal Affairs, under Ministry of Law & Justice has issued Gazette notification no. A-60011/14/2014-Admin IV (LA) dated 8th Feb 2016 to implement Legal Information Management & Briefing System (LIMBS) to monitor the court cases on behalf of Union of India and Organization, Department etc. under the Administrative Control of Central Government. It is therefore all court cases are to be entered in LIMBS where Govt of India is one of the respondent.
The Law Secretary vide his D.O letter dated 22.09.2016 addressed to the Revenue Secretary had stressed on nomination of Nodal Officers and completion of the data entry by November 30, 2016.
Presumably, the exercise seems to be far from complete.
Therefore, the Joint Secretary, CBEC by a letter dated November 15, 2016 addressed to all the CCAs/DGs/Commissioners of CBEC has - requested that the concerned officers may be deputed to attained the training/query session organized by DoLA, if there is any doubt regarding uploading of data on LIMBS portal.
The DG(NACEN) is also requested to arrange training in consultation with LIMBS team of DoLA in Delhi or in its regional centers during the month of November 2016. It is also mentioned that Payments to LIMBS will have to be made by NACEN in case of travel of LIMBS team outside Delhi.
The Special Secretary & Member, CBEC, by a D.O letter dated 15th November, 2016 addressed to the Chief Commissioners/Directors General, CBEC drawn their attention to the earlier letters from Joint Secretary (Admn), CBEC regarding implementation of LIMBS and uploading of data of court cases and mentions that despite repeated written and oral reminders, neither the names of Nodal Officers have been intimated to the Board nor requisite data has been uploaded on the portal.
The Member, CBEC requests that an officer not below the rank of Commissioner be nominated immediately for the purpose and ardently hopes that no further reminders would be required on this issue.
This certainly is the politest way to address a recalcitrant field formation.