The National Company Law Tribunal’s digital corridors are going dark—temporarily. On June 19, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, the entire NCLT e-Courts ecosystem—spanning e-Filing, the Case Information System (CIS), and the Document Management System (DMS)—will be taken offline for scheduled maintenance.
The notification, stemming from a June 17 alert by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), points to a technical glitch plaguing the servers that prop up NCLT benches across the country. With multiple Benches affected, the downtime has been deemed unavoidable.
This comes as little surprise to legal professionals who’ve been wrestling with persistent tech troubles all week—login errors, failed uploads, disappearing case records, and court fee hiccups have turned routine filings into digital scavenger hunts.
The e-filing architecture, which took its first institutional steps in 2018, was meant to modernize NCLT operations. It began with New Delhi’s Bench hosting NIC-led training sessions and soon spread across the country. By early 2020, most Benches had hopped aboard the digital train—Mumbai joined on February 3, 2020.
But now, the promise of efficiency is being tested by the reality of tech fatigue. As the NCLT presses pause for a three-hour maintenance window, stakeholders are hoping it’s more than just a band-aid on a buckling system.
