PRESIDENT TO OPEN NATIONAL
JUDICIAL ACADEMY ON
SEPTEMBER 5
The President, Dr. A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam, will dedicate to the nation the National Judicial
Academy on September 5, 2002 at Bhopal at a function to be presided
over by the Chief Justice of India, Shri Justice B.N. Kirpal with
the Union Minister of Law and Justice Shri K. Jana Krishnamurthi
and the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Digvijay Singh
to be present, among others, on the occasion.
Built at an estimated
cost of Rs. 80 crore, the National Judicial Academy has been set
up by the Government of India to provide in-service training to
judicial officers of States, Union Territories and Ministerial
officers working in the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts.
The Academy will function as a centre of excellence in court management.
The Academy is registered under the
Societies Registration Act, 1860 with its registered head office
in Delhi and located at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh.
The Academy is managed by a Governing Council, chaired by the
Chief Justice of India. The other members of the Council are,
two other judges of the Supreme Court, Secretaries to the Government
of India in the Department of Justice, Department of Legal Affairs
and Department of Expenditure. The Registrar General of the Supreme
Court of India is the Member-Secretary of the Council. Besides,
the General Body of the Academy includes Chief Justice of a High
Court, one judge of another High Court and two law academics.
The members of the Governing Council of the Academy including
its Chairman will be ex-officio members of the General Body.
The Academy will become fully functional
by December 2002. It has so far utilized Rs. 78.96 crore of the
estimated cost of Rs. 80 crore.
It will function as a national clearing
house of information in the judicial arena and set standards of
excellence in the justice delivery system by sensitizing presiding
officers and judges on all issues germane to judiciary including
gender issues.
The Academy, before becoming fully
functional, has already imparted training to several judicial
officers from 13 High Courts in London besides imparting training
to 835 judicial officers in the matters concerned with cases of
gender laws. They were also sensitized on effective practice and
procedures to be followed by them during the trial of rape and
other sexual abuse cases with a further instruction to disseminate
their experience gained among companion judges.
