Summoning adm secretaries

For quite some time we have been finding a piquant situation developing in regard to relations between the executive and the judiciary. Though the areas of each organ of the State are fully defined and demarcated yet owing to either communication gap; or administrartive lethargy something like confrontational situation has developed between the two organs. How has this situation come to develop and what should be done to stop it sliding down?
The fact of the matter is that the Court has not been receiving the quick response to its questions and queries made from administrative departments. The response is invariably either too late or ambiguous which makes the functioning of the High Court more complicated. The focus is on reducing pendency but what obtains on the ground is the reverse of it. Naturally, when the High Court finds belated or no response from the administrative units, it is left with no choice but to summon the departmental heads or the Secretaries or Commissioners to sort out a particular issue and submit the policy of the Government for the consideration of the High Court.
From Administrative side, the fact is that any information or details of information sought by the High Court is not necessarily available quickly or easily because the matter under discussion has to be scratched out from the bottom of files. The file work consumes lot of time. That is the reason why the Government wants to digitize the entire system and experiment what is called paperless correspondence.
Eyebrows are raised why the High Court often orders personal presence of top level administrative officers meaning Secretaries / Commissioners to be present in the court while cases pertaining to various departments are debated. We think the High Court is not happy on summoning any Secretary or Commissioner to be present in the court. The High Court is compelled to do so and the compulsion comes from non cooperative attitude of the bureaucracy. Administrative Secretaries cannot hide anything from the court of law
The Minister for Law and Justice is right in advising the Secretaries and Commissioners that they should personally monitor the progress of developmental schemes and not leave it entirely to the subordinates. Unnecessary delay is made in clearing files and especially those pertaining to Central Government. This has to stop.

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