Veerappa Moily stresses goal oriented action to expedite the justice delivery system

Veerappa Moily stresses goal oriented action to expedite the justice delivery system

While addressing the ‘National Consultation for Strengthening the Judiciary towards reducing pendency and delays’ Veerppa Moily, Union Minister of Law & Justice stated that all the stakeholders should work for goal oriented action to expedite the justice delivery system in the country.

Moily stressed the need for bringing down the pendency of cases in the courts across the country within a time frame. He said that justice delivery system is falling short of the common citizen’s expectations especially the weaker sections of the society and causing a feeling of injustice and alienation among them. He further said that fifty three thousand cases are pending with the Supreme Court, Forty lakh with different High Courts and Two crore Seven lakh cases with Lower Courts up to July 2009.

On this occasion Moily also presented vision statement to Justice K G Balakrishan, Chief Justice of India. The Action Plan include immediate measures for implementations like creation of national arrears grid, identification of arrears, identification of bottlenecks in crises areas, adoption of innovative measures for expeditious case disposal, focus on selection, training and performance assessment of judicial personnel and court management executives and procedural, management and administrative


Courtesy: Ministry of Law & Justice release