Overview
- At the Supreme Court-hosted NALSA conference, the prime minister unveiled a Community Mediation Training Module to strengthen local dispute resolution under the Mediation Act.
- He said the government’s legal aid defence counsel system has enabled disposal of about eight lakh criminal cases over the past three years.
- He praised the Supreme Court’s translation of more than 80,000 judgments into 18 Indian languages and urged similar access at High Court and district levels.
- Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal reported NALSA’s allocation at Rs 400 crore this fiscal, with Rs 350 crore released, up from Rs 68 crore in 2015–16.
- CJI B.R. Gavai and Justice Surya Kant emphasized that e‑Courts and other tools should serve people through local knowledge, linguistic accessibility and empathy.