President Droupadi Murmu today said that reducing the pendency of cases is a big challenge facing the judiciary. Addressing the two-day National Conference of District Judiciary at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi this evening, President Murmu said all stakeholders should come together and find solutions to address the backlog of cases.
In his address, Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal expressed pride that the Supreme Court has completed the journey of 75 years. He said a good ecosystem of the judicial system should be available to the citizens working in various fields so that they can devote their individual and collective potential to nation-building.
Addressing the conference, Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, said the Committee on Reducing Arrears of Cases has laid out an action plan for reducing case pendency through case management. He added that some of the other strategies for dealing with the backlog include pre-litigation dispute resolution. The Chief Justice said the Supreme Court recently concluded its first-ever National Lok Adalat, at which almost 1,000 cases were disposed of amicably within a course of five working days.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Conference of District Judiciary yesterday.
