The District and Sessions Judge on Sunday called a meeting with the officials from concerned departments to review ongoing preparations for ‘Rashtriya lok Adalat’ to be held here on December 6.
During the meeting, directives regarding classification of the cases, appointment of the nodal officers and publicity of the event were given to the officials concerned.
Directives were also issued for compulsorily making available details of the classified cases in the prescribed manner during first week of the month of October and November and once by the end of December, this year. As per the number of cases received for the ‘lok Adalat’, the list of division bench and presiding officers should be prepared by November 10 this year.
The judge directed to appoint the official for works related to ‘Rashtriya lok Adalat’ as the Nodal Officer and make available his/her details including mobile number and e-mail address within a week time. Banners and posters will be used as means for spreading awareness about the ‘lok Adalat’. The judge directed to put the banners and posters at appropriate place. The District legal Service Authority will make available advertisement banners and posters to all the concerning departments.
Next meet to review progress of ongoing preparations for ‘Rashtriya lok Adalat’ will be held at 2 pm at the district and session court on October 13.
Cases such as compensation in land-acquisition matters, fines, motor-vehicle accident matter, maintenance, divorce, compromise in power theft, Minimum Wages Act, employer-employee conflict, shop and Establishment Act, pending cases with Consumer Forum, RCC recovery, license and matters related to income, caste and domicile documents will be heard in the ‘lok Adalat’.
Besides, matters related to compromise in the bank loan recovery (prior to conflict), pending dues of the telecom companies, pending power bills, matters related to forest crimes, Traffic challans will be put before the ‘lok Adalat’.