ARINDAM CHAUDHURI | New Delhi, July 14, 2011 21:18
...........there are two key things that the government must do to make our judicial system functional. The first is to take the number of our judges to about ten times the current figures. If we are to try and achieve such standards, we need to have about 100,000 or so more judges. It sounds huge, but is surely achievable; and in a span of five years too. Therefore, to have 20,000 additional judges per year, we have to budget for approximately Rs. 6,000 crores per year additionally, assuming that the expenses around a judge and his office assistants put together would be (and is actually definitely) not more than Rs. 30,00,000 per year. Given our massive annual budget and given that at least we at the IIPM Think Tank have been lobbying for the same through our alternate budgets for more than 11 years now, it’s a shame to see budgets being passed year after year with no focus on the judicial machinery and with no substantive budgets being allocated for improving the said system – that too after the government bravely declared that by 2012, all the backlog of our 3 crore pending cases will be cleared. It’s just a year more to go and nothing concrete has happened in that direction. The second thing the government must do is pass a statutory law in the Parliament that would guarantee and typically force the delivery of justice in a timely manner. In developed countries like the US, for petty cases, people filing cases in the morning get justice literally by the evening......
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT :
http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/for-salman-khurshid-it-is-a-big-challenge-ahead-and-i-personally-look-forward-to-a-revolutionary-couple-of-years-ahead/18373/
IIPM | ARINDAM CHAUDHURI
...........there are two key things that the government must do to make our judicial system functional. The first is to take the number of our judges to about ten times the current figures. If we are to try and achieve such standards, we need to have about 100,000 or so more judges. It sounds huge, but is surely achievable; and in a span of five years too. Therefore, to have 20,000 additional judges per year, we have to budget for approximately Rs. 6,000 crores per year additionally, assuming that the expenses around a judge and his office assistants put together would be (and is actually definitely) not more than Rs. 30,00,000 per year. Given our massive annual budget and given that at least we at the IIPM Think Tank have been lobbying for the same through our alternate budgets for more than 11 years now, it’s a shame to see budgets being passed year after year with no focus on the judicial machinery and with no substantive budgets being allocated for improving the said system – that too after the government bravely declared that by 2012, all the backlog of our 3 crore pending cases will be cleared. It’s just a year more to go and nothing concrete has happened in that direction. The second thing the government must do is pass a statutory law in the Parliament that would guarantee and typically force the delivery of justice in a timely manner. In developed countries like the US, for petty cases, people filing cases in the morning get justice literally by the evening......
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT :
http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/for-salman-khurshid-it-is-a-big-challenge-ahead-and-i-personally-look-forward-to-a-revolutionary-couple-of-years-ahead/18373/
IIPM | ARINDAM CHAUDHURI
