State’s lone Judicial Academy will now spread the light of jurisprudence from a new centre built in Dhurwa as was officially dedicated to the legal fraternity on Saturday after a grand inaugural ceremony attended by eminent judges of the Supreme Court of India, Jharkhand High Court and Chief Minister Raghubar Das amid words of praise for the Jharkhand Government by the bigwigs of Indian judiciary.
The state of the art campus sitting opposite Dhurwa Dam features academic block besides a separate hostel for boys and girls. The various parts of the campus were inaugurated by Justice TS Thakur and his wife Saudamini Singh. The moment was a rare occasion when the Jharkhand government won accolades for investing in institutions despite little impact of those institutions on the economic progress of the society.
“Man may come, man may go but institutions go on forever. If you want progress, stability, peace you need to build institutions. If you are investing in institutions then that is the best investment one can think of. So also if you are investing in high court-- the building is coming up and institution is being built-- you are making an investment that will be long lasting. It will lay foundation for progress,” said Justice Thakur.
Justice Thakur praised the investment made in building judicial institutions for it provides safe and secure environment that promotes activities incidentally related to progress, development and creates an environment that brings more investment for better development. However, Justice Anil R Dave stressed upon the need to go back to roots that offers solution to the environment issues through respect to “mother earth”.
The Judge of the Supreme Court commended the State government for taking the responsibility of creating institutions simultaneously as it faces the challenge of fulfilling basic needs of the people. He underscored the necessity of a training academy for institutions, especially judiciary to curb degeneration and keep the stake holders abreast of the various laws and regulations that arise with evolving times.
Significance of institutions was highlight by Chief Minister, Raghubar Das as he communicated his government’s commitment for completing construction of new Jharkhand High Court building on time and promised to install solar power equipments at the new building for promoting clean energy as he also urged the gathering to deliberate on formula for sustainable development complementing the environmental issues.
The inauguration ceremony was followed by conference on ‘Environmental Issues and Climatic Change: Jharkhand Chapter’ which was organized by the Jharkhand High Court in association with Judicial Academy Jharkhand and co-sponsored by National Green Tribunal and Department of Forests, Environment and Climate Change, Government of Jharkhand.
“Just the way the Building Construction department completed the building, we will also complete construction of new Jharkhand High Court building on time and run it on solar energy,” maintained Das, adding “not only that around 40 government buildings will also run on solar energy”.
Earlier, Das was requested by Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court, Virender Singh, to arrange solar power for the new High Court building just the way it was done for the district court building at Khunti.
Speaking about the environmental issues, Das assured that the government would take Namami Gange project on pilot mode and informed the delegates including the Chairperson of National Green Tribunal, Justice Swatanter Kumar, about the `150-crore plan in the offing for clean Ganga mission for purging the 83-km long stream of the river passing through Jharkhand.
As the NGT chairperson raised environmental and issues of solid waste management in Jharkhand, Das assured that the proposed sewage-drainage system for solid waste management project would begin from November.