Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated NALSA’s national conference at the Supreme Court and unveiled a Community Mediation Training Module to expand neighborhood dispute resolution.
- He tied ease of living and business to accessible justice, urging simpler legal language and wider availability of judgments in local languages, praising over 80,000 Supreme Court translations into 18 Indian languages.
- Government-reported outcomes included nearly 800,000 criminal cases resolved in three years under the Legal Aid Defence Counsel System, lakhs of settlements through Lok Adalats and pre-litigation efforts, and more than one crore Tele-Law beneficiaries.
- Modi highlighted the eCourts project’s next phase with about ₹7,000 crore allocated, citing tools such as e-filing, e-summons, video hearings and broader digitisation to make processes more inclusive.
- He also pointed to wider legal reforms—removal of 40,000 compliances, decriminalisation of over 3,400 provisions and repeal of 1,500 obsolete laws, alongside new criminal codes—while CJI B.R. Gavai and Justice Surya Kant urged proactive, humane legal aid guided by local knowledge.