By IANS
New Delhi : The government will appoint more than 6,000 first class magistrates to preside over mobile gram ‘nyayalayas’, or village courts, across the country to establish a quick and efficient system of judiciary at the grassroot level.
The union cabinet, presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved Thursday the “recommendations of the Standing Committee of the union Law and Justice Ministry to further amend the Gram Nyayalayas Bill, 2007, already introduced in the Rajya Sabha earlier this year”, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi.
“After introduction, the bill was referred to the Standing Committee, which made certain recommendations which have now been cleared by the cabinet and will then be moved as official amendments in the Rajya Sabha,” he said.
“This legislation would reduce considerable number of pending cases in subordinate judiciary and establish a system of judiciary that will be less expensive, free from protracted procedural wrangles, quick and available at the grass-roots level, accessible to the common man..,” he said.
The minister said “nearly 6,000 Class I magistrates, to be appointed after the enactment of the proposed law, will preside over mobile courts to go to the doorstep of the poor illiterate villagers”.