The greatest irony is that the inefficiency in justice delivery system in India has been institutionalised to a great extent.
Grossly untrained ministerial staff, ages old documentation system, unsafe,risk-prone housekeeping,obsolete court practices, non- cooperative -ill-trained bar,, no co-ordination among stake holders, opaque information system, highly monopolistic-authoritarian approach and atmosphere and to cap all these the maladious status quoist wry face disgusted under trained and ill-motivated Judge - cumulatively these components thrive on the ill conceived quest of justice of the litigants visiting the court campuses .
Movement of litigants to courts is so voluminous that it will be worthwhile to evaluate the economics of this legal-mobility - limited tourism.
Those appointed to man this monopolistic service get paid irrespective of the quality of their work.
Not only the end quality, even without concern and without accountability these personnels from bottom up to top get paid. Their employer,the state pays and they get paid- nothing comes in between. One may ask after seeing them sitting idle or gossiping in their respective chairs in court premises , for what they are paid and believe me , there would be no answer.
To find out their productivity, time is a herculean task.
They are there even without practical utility.
This opaque system and this inefficiency is the root cause of corruption in courts, Justice Delivery System
It is a monopoly service. The market competition is not there. There is no reward for better service. People may be heard complaining openly that court system is feeding its own staff, officers and professionals.
Indeed there is a performance crisis in the legal system . This crisis can be felt at every stage. .
The so called magnificent decorative adjective "independence of Judiciary " cannot balance the odd perception about our Justice delivery system. Independence will be counted when the system works. It is perhaps surviving because of its legal monopoly- doing more disservice than service .
There is complete lack of planning, management, administration, innovation, investment of efficient resources ,check and balances within the system, accountability, transparency, sensitiveness, orientation and lastly conviction for justice and its vision.
The system is eroding itself from within due to its own in-sensitiveness and unwillingness to perform. The corrupts have taken hold of the system and the persons at the top lack courage , stamina and time to change the status quo.
A real techonological makeover of the system may change the whole game-play.
Whether they will allow that?.
Even the top brass of the system may find it difficult to harness the vested interest that has taken hold of the system in order to make it their own end serving tool.
But that is a step to be taken.
They say, the step has already been taken.
But perhaps it is still not seen or felt .
Grossly untrained ministerial staff, ages old documentation system, unsafe,risk-prone housekeeping,obsolete court practices, non- cooperative -ill-trained bar,, no co-ordination among stake holders, opaque information system, highly monopolistic-authoritarian approach and atmosphere and to cap all these the maladious status quoist wry face disgusted under trained and ill-motivated Judge - cumulatively these components thrive on the ill conceived quest of justice of the litigants visiting the court campuses .
Movement of litigants to courts is so voluminous that it will be worthwhile to evaluate the economics of this legal-mobility - limited tourism.
Those appointed to man this monopolistic service get paid irrespective of the quality of their work.
Not only the end quality, even without concern and without accountability these personnels from bottom up to top get paid. Their employer,the state pays and they get paid- nothing comes in between. One may ask after seeing them sitting idle or gossiping in their respective chairs in court premises , for what they are paid and believe me , there would be no answer.
To find out their productivity, time is a herculean task.
They are there even without practical utility.
This opaque system and this inefficiency is the root cause of corruption in courts, Justice Delivery System
It is a monopoly service. The market competition is not there. There is no reward for better service. People may be heard complaining openly that court system is feeding its own staff, officers and professionals.
Indeed there is a performance crisis in the legal system . This crisis can be felt at every stage. .
The so called magnificent decorative adjective "independence of Judiciary " cannot balance the odd perception about our Justice delivery system. Independence will be counted when the system works. It is perhaps surviving because of its legal monopoly- doing more disservice than service .
There is complete lack of planning, management, administration, innovation, investment of efficient resources ,check and balances within the system, accountability, transparency, sensitiveness, orientation and lastly conviction for justice and its vision.
The system is eroding itself from within due to its own in-sensitiveness and unwillingness to perform. The corrupts have taken hold of the system and the persons at the top lack courage , stamina and time to change the status quo.
A real techonological makeover of the system may change the whole game-play.
Whether they will allow that?.
Even the top brass of the system may find it difficult to harness the vested interest that has taken hold of the system in order to make it their own end serving tool.
But that is a step to be taken.
They say, the step has already been taken.
But perhaps it is still not seen or felt .
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