Overview
- Calling “ease of justice” essential to social and economic life, the Prime Minister urged that laws, judgments and legal documents be available in local languages and praised the Supreme Court’s translation of over 80,000 rulings into 18 Indian languages.
- He unveiled NALSA’s Community Mediation Training Module and linked it to the new Mediation Act, positioning community-led resolution as a way to reduce litigation and costs.
- Modi cited official figures that nearly 800,000 criminal cases were resolved in three years under the Legal Aid Defence Counsel System, describing benefits for poor and marginalised communities.
- Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said Tele-Law has provided pre-litigation advice to more than one crore people since 2017 and noted NALSA’s budget has risen to Rs 400 crore this fiscal.
- Chief Justice B.R. Gavai framed legal aid as a right and urged proactive outreach, as speakers highlighted e-Courts and other digital tools and called for expanding translation and access initiatives to high courts and districts.