November 9th is supposed to be an important day for the common people. The National legal Aid day is celebrated by NALSA and the other state authorities by conducting Adalats all across the country. The intention is respected but the outcome disheartening. While a number of cases are reported to these Adalats, they fail to achieve a final and binding outcome. Most of the cases are left unrepresented or the parties feel dejected on the awarded rather than compromised amount.
But we have reasons for optimism in the present trends in reducing the pendency of cases. The number of cases getting heard, delivered and disposed off by the court has increased proportionately to the number of cases reaching before it, which was not existing before. The outcome of this encouraging state of affairs can be owed to those judges who are competing themselves in setting records for disposing of cases. However, the Judges should not take this as a mere game of competition, for they are the flag bearers of justice. Disposing does not mean dispensing injustice to the Daridra narayanas of the country, quoting Justice V.R Krishna Iyer. They should not be unmeaning to the cause of the common people who are left in a pitiful state of affairs and have nowhere to go, than the courts by spending their hard-earned money.
The declaration of Cheriyanad Panchayath in Alappuzha District of Kerala by the Chief Justice of India as the first Litigation- controlled and Legally-literate Grama Panchayath is a welcome step in achieving the Constitutional goals and more importantly achieving the cause of the people. It is definitely a precursor of change which ought to be streamelined in the right direction. At the same instance we need to have a mechanism for judging or measuring the success of such endeavours. Claiming a litigation-less society is laudatory but a mechanism providing the maximum justice is and would be the most undebatable and cherished endeavour.
But we have reasons for optimism in the present trends in reducing the pendency of cases. The number of cases getting heard, delivered and disposed off by the court has increased proportionately to the number of cases reaching before it, which was not existing before. The outcome of this encouraging state of affairs can be owed to those judges who are competing themselves in setting records for disposing of cases. However, the Judges should not take this as a mere game of competition, for they are the flag bearers of justice. Disposing does not mean dispensing injustice to the Daridra narayanas of the country, quoting Justice V.R Krishna Iyer. They should not be unmeaning to the cause of the common people who are left in a pitiful state of affairs and have nowhere to go, than the courts by spending their hard-earned money.
The declaration of Cheriyanad Panchayath in Alappuzha District of Kerala by the Chief Justice of India as the first Litigation- controlled and Legally-literate Grama Panchayath is a welcome step in achieving the Constitutional goals and more importantly achieving the cause of the people. It is definitely a precursor of change which ought to be streamelined in the right direction. At the same instance we need to have a mechanism for judging or measuring the success of such endeavours. Claiming a litigation-less society is laudatory but a mechanism providing the maximum justice is and would be the most undebatable and cherished endeavour.
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