FINANCIAL ALLOCATION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT BUILDING

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LOK SABHA

A proposal for an amount of Rs. 37.87 crore has been received from the State Government of Chhattisgarh for construction of High Court and residential complex of judges, officers and employees.

The Government of Chhattisgarh has been released an amount of Rs. 54 lakhs for this purpose in March, 2002. Planning Commission has allocated an amount of Rs. 18.00 crore during the current financial year for construction/extension of High Court building and the use of information technology in High Courts in various States under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme relating to development of infrastructural facilities for judiciary on the basis of 50 per cent matching share by the concerned State. The amount to be released, High Court-wise, has not yet been decided. However, priority will be accorded to redressing the infrastuctural deficiencies of the newly established High Court of Chhattisgarh.

The Government of Chhattisgarh is free to construct judges residences with the funds released to them under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for development of infrastructural facilities for the judiciary. Construction of residential quarters for officers and employees of the High Court is not a permissible item under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Law and Justice Shri K. Jana Krishnamurthi in a written reply to a question from Dr. Charan Das Mahant in the Lok Sabha today.