Overview
- The measure was approved by the Lok Sabha on Monday and cleared the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, completing parliamentary passage of the Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026 pending presidential assent.
- The new National Tribunals Commission will be based in New Delhi and include a chair plus four members, with fixed five-year tenures and age limits set to curb short, executive-controlled appointments.
- The Bill establishes Search-cum-Selection Committees, a National Tribunals Data Grid for case information and rules for performance review and disciplinary inquiries to standardize how 16 tribunals are run.
- The legislation is a direct legislative response to the Supreme Court's Madras Bar Association judgment that struck down key parts of the 2021 Act for harming judicial independence and directed formation of an independent commission.
- Separately, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has renewed calls for the National Green Tribunal to unseal a High-Powered Committee report on the contested Great Nicobar Project that was submitted to the NGT on July 8, 2025, saying disclosure would test tribunal transparency as the new law takes effect.