The Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA) has identified 2.74 lakh cases among the 20.22 lakh cases pending in Courts as on March 1, 2021, as fit to be settled in the mega Lok Adalat to be held on March 27.
Addressing a press conference, Justice Aravind Kumar, a Judge of the Karnataka High Court & the Executive Chairperson of the KSLSA, said that the State Govt has already released ₹1,260 crores to be paid for the settlement of several cases related to land acquisition during the forthcoming mega Lok Adalat.
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Savings to exchequer
The mega Lok Adalats won't only give relief to litigants by away of amicable settlement & reduce burden on Courts, but also save crores of rupees for the State exchequer in the form of payment of salaries to Judges & Court staff, & other incidental expenses, he said.
Justice Kumar said that settling a record 2.61 pending cases on a single day in the previous mega Lok Adalat on Dec 19, 2020, had saved around ₹102 crores for the exchequer.
It would have taken 80 days or 87,274 man-days to disposes of these 2.61 lakh pending cases for the around 1,100 Judges in the State considering that a judge in the State disposes an average of three cases per day by taking the average of number of cases disposed in the last 3 months of 2019, he said.
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While ₹39.47 crores has been saved in the form of salaries payable to Judges & ₹64.15 crores in the form of salaries payable to court staff by considering the average salary per judge as ₹4,523 per day & the average salary of six court staff (per court) as ₹7,351 per day, Justice Kumar said. Going by this calculation, he said, the mega Lok Adalat held in Dec 2020 involving 940 Judges was only ₹1.1 crore while the savings to the exchequer was around ₹102 crore.
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