Once legal education starts using local language, it will create a local language ecosystem: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday highlighted the need to implement local languages in courts, and called for legal education to be administered in the vernacular..Speaking at the Constitution Day event at the Supreme Court, Rijiju said,"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has highlighted the need to implement local languages in courts so that the common man feels connected. Under the aegis of the Law Ministry, the Bar Council of India has set up a Bharatiya Bhasha Committee headed by former Chief Justice of India SA Bobde. We have already made a glossary of 65,000 words. We will use AI and technology to digitise them, and make it available for all. Once legal education starts using local language, it will create a local language ecosystem.".Conveying his gratitude to the makers of the Constitution, he explained,"The constitutional promise of equal justice is based on making information accessible on routine basis and easy to understand manner. Last-mile delivery of justice remains challenged in a large country like ours. Quick, affordable justice has to be the buzzword."He touched on how legal literacy is being prioritised in local dialects, with the Department of Justice having developed a pan-India 'Access to Justice' system centred on 'regional and indigenous tools'..In the background of his earlier comments on the Collegium system and politics within the judiciary, Rijiju insisted that there were cordial relations between the executive and the judiciary."We work as a team, to have close cordial relation with the Indian judiciary. The previous Chief Justices and the present Chief Justice of India; we have shared very cordial relations and identified issues we have to address together."."Apas me ladke koi fayda nahi hai": Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on executive-judiciary tussle.Speaking at the same event, Attorney General for India R Venkataramani emphasised on the importance of the government not overloading the Supreme Court with endless statutory appeals."It is important that the government stops overloading the Supreme Court with endless statutory appeals alongside seamless and huge flow of cases from High Courts. The conversion of Supreme Court into a small causal court must stop..." he said.[Read about what Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud spoke at the event, here]

Once legal education starts using local language, it will create a local language ecosystem: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

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