NEW DELHI: CJI D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said more and more young women are choosing judiciary as their first choice of career and revealed that in the latest rounds of recruitment of judicial officers, women comprised 72% in Kerala, 66% in Delhi, 58% in Rajasthan and 54% in UP.
Speaking at the national conference of district judiciary at Bharat Mandapam, Justice Chandrachud said this trend is getting replicated in other states too and it is the job of the constitutional courts, the high courts and the Supreme Court, to train the judicial officers to give back to the society given the fact that there has been a huge improvement in their salary structures and infrastructural facilities.
During the inauguration of the conference, PM Narendra Modi released a postal stamp and a Rs 75 coin embossed with a picture of SC building to mark the 75th year of Supreme Court. The PM said, “The journey of the SC is not only the journey of an important institution of Indian democracy but is a journey of the Constitution and constitutional values, a journey of our democracy and the countless contributions of framers of the Constitution and the public.”
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who would succeed Justice Chandrachud as CJI on Nov 11, said district courts, which handle ten times the cases handled by HCs, seldom get the limelight even though they are the first point of contact for people for resolution of disputes and redressal of grievances.
He said despite the huge pendency of 4.5 crore cases in district judiciary, the judicial officers have tried to keep pace with the institution of fresh cases every year. Justice Khanna said the disposal rate of civil cases has improved from 90.5% in 2018 to 99.61% in 2023.
Speaking at the national conference of district judiciary at Bharat Mandapam, Justice Chandrachud said this trend is getting replicated in other states too and it is the job of the constitutional courts, the high courts and the Supreme Court, to train the judicial officers to give back to the society given the fact that there has been a huge improvement in their salary structures and infrastructural facilities.
During the inauguration of the conference, PM Narendra Modi released a postal stamp and a Rs 75 coin embossed with a picture of SC building to mark the 75th year of Supreme Court. The PM said, “The journey of the SC is not only the journey of an important institution of Indian democracy but is a journey of the Constitution and constitutional values, a journey of our democracy and the countless contributions of framers of the Constitution and the public.”
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who would succeed Justice Chandrachud as CJI on Nov 11, said district courts, which handle ten times the cases handled by HCs, seldom get the limelight even though they are the first point of contact for people for resolution of disputes and redressal of grievances.
He said despite the huge pendency of 4.5 crore cases in district judiciary, the judicial officers have tried to keep pace with the institution of fresh cases every year. Justice Khanna said the disposal rate of civil cases has improved from 90.5% in 2018 to 99.61% in 2023.