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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at
the inauguration of railway projects at Hajipur in Vaishali district of
Bihar on Saturday. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar
Modi suggested that the court, the Bar and the Bench should become techno-savvy "to improve the quality of judgments and arguments."
Sharing the stage with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish
Kumar for the first time after the NDA’s defeat in the Assembly polls
last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that India
“cannot make progress without the development of eastern States like
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.”
He said the use of
technology and the release of an annual bulletin to highlight the oldest
cases in courts would help to improve the functioning of the judiciary
and “create sensitivity to the pendency of cases in the country.”
Speaking
at the closing ceremony of the centenary celebrations of the Patna High
Court, Mr. Modi suggested that the court, the Bar and the Bench should
become techno-savvy “to improve the quality of judgments and arguments.”
“Now we’ve something which we had not earlier — the power of
technology. We’ve to see how much techno-savvy we can make the Bar, the
Bench and the courts by using digital technology in their functioning
and help work towards improving the quality of judgments.”
“Earlier,
a lot of time was spent doing research in the legal field, but today
Google is a bar member which digs out what you need for your cases,” the
Prime Minister said.
In his 15-minute speech, he
said that while sitting at the place, he was mooting that idea: “Can
courts release annual bulletins highlighting the oldest pending cases
before them? It will crate sensitivity among people to the pendency of
cases and inspire others to do something about the long-pending cases.”
Recalling
the contribution of several legal luminaries of the State to India’s
freedom struggle, Mr. Modi said he hoped the glorious tradition would be
“carried forward” in the years to come. Besides Mr. Nitish Kumar,
Governor Ram Nath Kovind, Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur and legal
luminaries were present.
In another programme in
Chhaukia village in Hajipur of Vaishali district, Mr. Modi flagged off
railway projects and said India could not be a developed country unless
its eastern States made progress. “We’re committed to the development of
the eastern States…The nerve centre of India’s development lies in
eastern India… For India’s sustainable development, it is important that
the eastern States develop.”
“My firm conviction is
that if India’s fate has to be changed, the fate of Bihar has to be
changed first… Bihar is priority for us as we feel Bihar’s progress is
key to India’s progress,” he said.
He also thanked
Mr. Nitish Kumar for extending support to the Centre for Bihar’s
development. While listing the priorities of projects of his government
for Bihar like providing gas connectivity and electricity to every
household, Mr. Modi said that in the past 18 months, his government had
completed 34 per cent of unfulfilled projects in Bihar.
When
Mr. Nitish Kumar addressed the meeting, thanking Mr. Modi for visiting
Bihar and hoping that he would keep coming to the State for its
development, some people kept chanting Modi…Modi…Modi. The Prime
Minister himself had to get up from his chair and asked them to sit
down.
Union Law Minister Sadanand Gowda, Railway
Minister Suresh Prabhu, Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram
Vilas Paswan and Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav were present.
The
RJD has expressed displeasure over its chief Lalu Prasad not invited to
the programme at Chhaukia, which is in the Raghopur Assembly
constituency represented by Mr. Tejaswi Yadav, his younger son.
Source: The Hindu
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