NEW DELHI: It’s not only the judicial work that burdens our judges but also the day-to-day administrative work of the courts. Keeping this in view, the Ministry of Law and Justice is working on a proposal to reduce the burden of the judges as far as administrative work is concerned.
The Supreme Court has 40 committees on the administrative side and on an average every judge has at least four committees to look after. It is also mandatory for each judge to conduct meetings with concerned officers once in 10-15 days and keep a tab on the progress of the work.
A ministry official said, “We are working on a module wherein full time court administrators would be appointed to monitor the work and judges won’t be disturbed. However, everything will happen under the guidance of the judges.” The official also stressed that this way the pressure on registry too can be managed more efficiently.
Judges mostly take care of committees that they are interested in. However, it is the responsibility of the Chief Justice of India to have a team of dedicated officers and law researchers.
CJI has assigned gender sensitisation and internal complaints committee to Justice R Banumathi and other judges have taken up committees of their interest. Apart from committee work, judges also perform certain executive functions of appointments of officers and servants, maintenance of records and superintendence over lower courts.