The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh said here today that his government recognises providing access to Justice in a country of India’s size raises many issues like values that must form basis of our justice system and the concern to make it accessible to the vulnerable and marginalised. In his address after releasing the book “Judicial Reflections of justice Bhagwati,” he said that the steps has been taken to promote legal empowerment and judicial reforms. “In the past four years we have taken several initiatives to strengthen the judiciary at various levels, and reduce the backlog of pending cases,” he said.
The Prime Minister also stated that the government has been working with the judiciary to put in place ‘fast-track” courts and “family courts” and pointed out that there is a large unfinished agenda to reduce the cost of litigation, the magnitude of long pending cases in our courts and to ensure accessibility of the justice system to the poor and marginalized sections of our population. He also said that the Central Government has also asked State Governments to increase the numbers of judicial officers at district and subordinate levels.
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