The National lok Adalat will be held in the Chhattisgarh High Court as well as in District and Tehsil Headquarters of the State on December 6, officials stated.
In the same sequence, Chairman of State legal Service Authority and Executive Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Justice Naveen Sinha chaired a meeting of Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of various Departments, according to an official statement issued here on Sunday.
State Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand was also present in the meeting. Justice Sinha said that National lok Adalat in Chhattisgarh is going to be a golden opportunity to redress agreement based cases through mutual consent of both parties, so as to lessen the pressure of pending cases in courts to a greater extent.
He took note of the department-wise pending cases from Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of respective department. Justice Sinha said that in the departments where cases related to service terms and other problems are more, a special campaign should be launched to solve them with mutual consent.
The competent authorities of respective departments should issue orders and instructions in such cases and redress the same at earliest, he said. In the meeting, bills and connection related cases of Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company ltd (CSPDCl), cases of Commercial-tax (Excise) Department related to penalty of upto Rs 1000, Mutation related cases of Revenue Department, compensation related cases of Calamity Management Department and license related cases of Urban Administration Department and cases of Forest Department related to Forest (Protection) Act etc were reviewed. Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of Panchayat and Rural Development, School Education, Urban Administration and Development, Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Development, Agriculture, Water Resource, PWD and other departments told in the meeting that several cases related to service of employees are pending in departments.
Justice Sinha directed competent authorities of the department to issue orders and instructions in the context at earliest. Reviewing the pending cases of Consumer Forum, Transport Department and Home Department, Justice Sinha said that many a times people file complaints at police stations over small disputes. The Competent Authority should try and solve such disputes at police-station level by hearing both parties and convincing them to resolve dispute with mutual consent, so that it doesn’t become a court case. This will prove to be a relief for people also.
Justice Sinha also collected the details from officials concerned about industrial disputes and status of the cases in labour Courts etc. In the meeting, Registrar General AK Panda, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Finance Department DS Mishra, ACS, Home, Transport and Jail NK Aswal, ACS Panchayat and Rural Development Department, MK Raut, law and legal Department Principal Secretary AK Samant Rey, Director General of Police, AN Upadhyay, Director General of Home Guard and Jail, Giridhari Nayak, PWD and Public Relations Principal Secretary Amitabh Jain, Urban Administration and Development Department Principal Secretary, RP Mandal, Secretary Water Resource and PHE, Ganesh Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Women and Child Development Department, Dinesh Shrivastav, Secretary, Tourism and Culture, RC Sinha, Secretary, School Education, Subrat Sahu, Secretary Commercial Tax (Excise), RS Vishwakarma, Managing Director CSPDCl Subodh Kumar Singh, Director, Health Services, Dr Kamalpreet Singh and other officials concerned were also present.
Member Secretary of State legal Service Authority Rajneesh Shrivastav and Raipur District and Sessions Judge RCS Samant along with other Judicial officials were also present in the meeting.