Executive Chairman of Jharkhand legal Services Authority (JHAlSA) and Jharkhand High Court Judge Justice DN Patel said that in the year 2015, JHAlSA succeeded in settling matters worth Rs 881 crore and has disposed of more than 60,000 cases pending in different courts of the State. Success rate of mediation in the State has also increased up to 50 per cent till date this year which was 45 per cent during the preceding year.
Justice Patel was speaking at Nyaya Sadan in Ranchi during a Refresher Training Programme for Sensitisation of Secretaries of DlSAs/SDlSCs of the State of Jharkhand along with Retainer lawyers and Front Office PlVs.
Even the success rate of mediation of Jharkhand High Court has reached up to 64 per cent which is slightly higher than that of the last year,” said Justice Patel. The purpose of this seminar itself was to understand the decorum of the post of DlSA/ SDlSA Member Secretaries one has been entrusted with, realize the dimension of its work and get going, added the Jharkhand High Court Judge.
“Please carry forward the legacy of JHAlSA as it has been rated under position 1 to 5 among all the states in the Country,” appealed Justice Patel. The Programme was also attended by Gujarat High Court Judge Justice Paresh Upadhyaya, Justice A V Singh, Principal Judicial Commissioner Ranchi Navneet Kumar, Member Secretary NAlSA Alok Agrawal, Jhalsa member Secretary A K Rai along with the other Judges of Jharkhand High Court.
Entire seminar was divided into three sessions --- “Enhancing Quality of legal Representation,” ‘Implementation of NAlSA Scheme and Strengthening of ADR Mechanism,” and “Timely submission of Statistical information in New Formal of NAlSA and full and proper utilization of grants and submission of utilisation certificate in time,” on which the distinguished guests taking part in the programme expressed their views and educated the newcomers what to do and what not to do.
During the training programme, stress was put on providing more and more compensation to the victims. Justice Patel further added that such programme will be organized periodically at every 3 months so that time to time queries of DlSA Member Secretaries could be satisfied. NCPC, according to Justice Patel, has chosen 10 centres out of which, 2 are in Jharkhand – Ranchi and Jamshedpur.