Excelsior Correspondent
ANANTNAG, May 23: Judge of Supreme Court, Justice R. N. Lodha today inaugurated Alternative Dispute Resolution Center (ADRC) at Anantnag in presence of Chief Justice of J&K M. M. Kumar.
Executive Chairman J&K LSA, Justice Verinder Singh, Chairman Mediation Monitoring Committee Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir, Chairman District Legal Service Authority and Principal District and Sessions Judge, A. R Malik and Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Dr. Farooq Ahmed Lone were present on the occasion.
The two storied building equipped with all modern facilities has been constructed at an estimated cost of Rs. 1.18 crores. The construction was started in March 2011 and with the best efforts of the executing agency R&B, the building has now been completed and handed over to the Judiciary for the general benefit of the people.
After inaugurating the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), 12 disputes were resolved on spot, out of which seven were related to motor accidents for which a compensation of Rs 32. 64 lakh was disbursed and the remaining cases pertaining to CrPC were also settled.
Speaking on the occasion, Justice Lodha said that the aim of establishing these ADRs is to shorten the time required for the resolution of disputes among the litigants. He emphasized upon the need of giving a wide area for the litigants for reaching out at the end point of any resolution. He urged the lawyers and facilitators to have utmost patience while listening to the parties so that a satisfactory solution can be reached out in the best interests of the parties at a very low cost.
Chief Justice of J&K, Justice MM Kumar explained the crux of establishing ADRs in the country. He congratulated all the participants for having such a kind of facilitation centre in the district where all people starting from the lower class to upper class can benefit themselves by getting easy and satisfactory justice according to their own will. This kind of conflict resolution can be achieved at a very low rather negligible cost, he maintained. He also informed that two ADRs have been constructed till date in J&K.
While reacting to the demands put forward by the president Bar Association Reyaz Ahmed, Justice Kumar told that efforts are already being made for the identification of land for new court complex at Anantnag. He also told that out of 43000 cases pending in different courts 14000 cases were disposed off during the last three months with the efforts of the judiciary.
Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir threw light on the background, aims and objectives of ADR Centres in the State.
The deliberations on ADR began with welcome address by Justice Virender Singh. Terming the ADR as an innovative idea of resolution of disputes by the litigants themselves, he congratulated the people for having the first legal aid clinic of this kind in the entire south Kashmir and second in entire J&K.
The ceremony concluded with the vote of thanks by Chairman DLSA, Principal District and Sessions Judge A. R Malik.
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