FINANCIAL AID TO HIGH COURTS

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RAJYA SABHA

The Centre has decided to provide financial aid for removal of infrastructural lacunae in High Courts. The Planning Commission has allocated an amount of Rs. 18.00 crore for construction/extension of High Court buildings and the use of information technology in High Courts during the current financial year under the Centrally Spnsored Scheme relating to development of infrastructural facilities for judiciary on the basis of 50 per cent matching share by the concerned State. The amounts to be released, High Court-wise has not yet been decided. However, priority will be accorded to redressing the infrastructural deficiencies of the newly established High Courts of Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Law and Justice Shri K. Jana Krishnamurthi in a written reply to a question from Shri P.K. Maheshwari in the Rajya Sabha today.