The Rajasthan High Court on Saturday, 7 November 2026, flagged off three E-Seva mobile vans to carry court-related services directly to remote and underserved villages across the state, dramatically reducing the need for rural residents to travel to district headquarters or court complexes. The initiative is a joint effort between the Rajasthan High Court and the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority (RSLSA).

What the E-Seva Vans Offer

Chief Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal of the Rajasthan High Court personally flagged off all three vans at the launch ceremony, attended by judges of the Jaipur Bench and senior RSLSA officials. Each van is equipped with modern technology enabling villagers to participate in judicial proceedings via video conferencing, check the status of pending cases, access court-related information, and obtain free legal aid — all without travelling to urban judicial centres.

The vans will also host legal awareness programmes in villages and at community gathering spaces, including local chaupals, educating residents about their legal rights, available government-supported judicial schemes, and free legal aid facilities.

Who Is Behind the Initiative

According to Hari Om Sharma Attri, Member Secretary of RSLSA, the three E-Seva mobile vans have been provisioned under an initiative of the Supreme Court's E-Committee and the Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice. The Rajasthan High Court and RSLSA will jointly operate and manage the vans to ensure consistent outreach across the state's most remote districts.

Attri stated that access to justice should not be determined by a person's geographical location, financial standing, or lack of resources, adding that this effort marks a concrete step toward extending High Court and Legal Services Authority services to Rajasthan's most distant villages.

Who Stands to Benefit

Special emphasis has been placed on reaching economically weaker sections of the population and individuals with limited prior access to legal assistance. The initiative is expected to be particularly impactful for people who currently forgo routine legal inquiries because of the time and cost involved in travelling to district courts. By deploying technology as an equaliser, the programme directly addresses three key barriers — geographical remoteness, financial constraints, and low awareness of available legal services.

Broader Context

This launch is part of a wider national push to digitise and decentralise judicial access under the Supreme Court's Phase III e-Courts Mission Mode Project. Rajasthan, with a large rural population spread across geographically vast districts, has long faced challenges in ensuring equitable access to justice at the grassroots level. Notably, mobile legal aid vans have been deployed in select other states, but the integration of real-time video conferencing with case-status lookup in a single mobile unit represents a meaningful technological step forward for the state's justice delivery infrastructure.

With three vans now operational and a mandate to cover even the most remote corners of the state, the initiative signals a shift in how Indian courts are thinking about last-mile judicial access — and sets a template other high courts may look to replicate.