Nagaon district also has the distinction of becoming the first district in Assam to use information technology effectively in the Judicial system. A computer centre was set up in 1997 at the office of the District and Sessions Judge, Nagaon, with a Pentium server, three multilingual GIST terminals and two printers, to facilitate neat record keeping of legal cases and to provide necessary transparency of the trials conducted under 13 different courts and tribunal of Nagaon. The computer centre have been operationalised from July,2000. The centre is operated by  staff of Nagaon district Judicial establishments and technical consultancy services are provided by NIC Nagaon District unit. Normal activities of the centre are listed below :

Registration of Cases:

All the new cases being installed at various courts under the Office of the District & Sessions Judge, Nagaon and Office of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nagaon, are registered in computer system including party details, advocate details, allotted court, IPC section etc. There is a provision for printing registration/acknowledgement slip meant for the litigants which may be used as a quick reference to a particular case.

Causelist preparation:

Daily preparation of causelist containing listing details of trials scheduled for each day before various courts - is one of the important activities. Causelists are given to all the courts prior to beginning of business for the day.

Disposed cases :

Disposed cases for all the courts are kept in separate databases for future reference.

Searching case details :

Powerful search facilities are available for enquiry of case details pending before the courts. Litigants and advocates may use these facilities.

Quarterly Return statement :

Quarterly return statements for cases disposed and pending before various courts are prepared. This facility would help the Hon'ble Gauhati High Court to monitor progress of disposals and speed of trial of cases.

Internet :

The centre is equipped with a dial-up internet facility. Besides wide ranging  information available on the Net, the Judicial officers and staff may browse the Web sites of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and the Hon'ble Gauhati High Court for details of causelists and case references of these higher institutions.