New Delhi: Union minister for law and justice Ravi Shankar Prasad Thursday claimed that his ministry had ensured that states like Orissa and others are aided to resolve long pending legal cases under the Nyaya Mitra Scheme.
The minister was addressing the media at Jaisalmer House here to highlight the achievements and initiatives of his ministry over past three years.
He said, “For states like Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar where there are many vacancies in the courts and on the other hand the cases are piling up, our ministry through Nyaya Mitra scheme has planned to open District Facilitation Centres.”
A total of 227 districts including 27 in the North-East and Jammu & Kashmir and 200 in Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and West Bengal are identified for these centres. These centres have been envisioned to settle those cases that are pending for more than ten years, said the law minister.
These DFCs will be established with the aid of the existing Common Service Centres spread across the country. 247 applications have already been received for the scheme that was launched April 20 this year.
This will be functionalised through a retired judicial or executive officer designated as ‘Nyaya Mitra’. The officers will identify such cases through the National Judicial Data Grid; they will provide legal advice to the litigants and connect them to the agencies such as District Legal Service Authority, Common Service Centre Tele Law among other agencies.
As per the ministry officials, in Orissa a total of 20 such DFC centres have been sanctioned by the law ministry.
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