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Union Government will appoint Nyaya Mitras across the country to expedite the cases pending for last 10 years in lower courts. Addressing a function at Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court to inaugurate the Tele Law Service through Common Service Centers, Union Law and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that retired judges will be appointed as Nyaya Mitras to expedite the over seven lakh fifty thousand cases pending across the country.
He said, Government is committed to providing justice to poor people in fast, smooth and affordable manner. The Minister said, the number of Common Service centers has been increased to two lakh fifty thousand across the country and they are providing 300 kinds of services to the common people. He appealed Para Legal Volunteers, PLVs, working at these centers to make themselves dependable for poor people.
Addressing the function, Supreme Court judge and Chairman of National Legal Service Authority Justice Deepak Misra announced that number of Para Legal Volunteers will be increased from 500 to 15000 in Uttar Pradesh. He called upon the PLVs to become friendlier to
litigants and serve them.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that with a view to bringing down the number of litigations in the courts, his government has turned Thana Diwas and Tehsil Diwas into on-the-spot Solution Days by district authorities.
Appreciating the practice of Lok Adalats, he said, it has successfully expedited large number of cases in a smooth way. He said, to check the tendency of litigation, solutions of problems of villagers should be sorted out at village level and concept of Panch Parameshwar should be strengthened.