Prayagraj, May 31: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath addressed the inauguration ceremony of advocate chambers and parking building built at a cost of Rs 680 crore in the High Court premises on Saturday in the presence of Chief Justice of India Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai.
Recalling the program organized by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Allahabad High Court in 2017, he said that then the PM had said that the first condition of good governance is the rule of law. The CM said that in the rule of law, litigants are as important as bar-bench.
CM expressed the pain of the advocates and said that along with broken chambers and sitting under trees, advocates are seen working in every adverse situation and struggling for justice.
Chief Minister said that today is a proud day. Today is the 300th birth anniversary of Lokmata Ahilyabai Holkar. This year is also the Amrit Mahotsav year of the implementation of the Constitution of India. Prayagraj is the land of India’s heritage in UP. This land has been attracting the attention of the country and the world since ancient times as the Triveni of Maa Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati as well as the land of religion, knowledge and justice of modern India. The land of Prayagraj is also the land of Maha Kumbh. By taking a dip in the confluence here, every Indian felt proud by connecting himself with his heritage.
Yogi said that multi-level parking is built, but no one goes there. I repeatedly tell the urban bodies that it will be successful only when some of its space is used for commercial purposes. The Development Authority built a multi-level parking in Gorakhpur six years ago, it did not work. I said that operate it by giving commercial space in its last two floors. As soon as this happened, today the entire complex is full. People who used to park their vehicles on the roads, park their vehicles in the complex and go there and enjoy the facilities.
CM Yogi, while praising the excellent arrangement, said that here, along with multi-level parking, advocate chambers, cafeteria, modern kitchen, conference facilities are also available. This can be a new model for infrastructure. When we came, there were no district courts in 10 districts of UP. Sometimes the Chief Justice and sometimes we did not like the map. Then we told the implementing agencies to make it such that it is a model. Along with building an integrated court complex, build parking and advocate chambers in it. Out of the proposal we had given, seven districts have got approval from here, 1700 crores have been released for it. The cases of three other districts have also been settled by the court. We are also giving them to those districts.
CM Yogi said that when the integrated court complex will be built, the litigants will get all the facilities related to judicial work under one roof. There will also be chambers and car parking for advocates. There will also be housing facilities for judicial officers. The effort that has started in the construction of a good complex will become a model. The central and state governments together are committed to providing maximum facilities in the district courts and solving the problems of advocates.
The CM said that the amount of advocate fund has been increased from one and a half lakh to five lakh, the age limit has been increased from 60 to 70 years. A corpus fund of Rs 500 crore has been given separately. In case of an accident with an advocate, the trustee committee will make good use of this money for that family. New advocates are being provided assistance for journals, magazines and books for the first three years.
CM said that multi-level parking and advocate chambers have been built very well. CM assured that whatever amount is required for its extension, it will be available very soon. Due to which we will be able to do even better in the land of justice-knowledge and religion and litigants of UP will be able to get justice in a timely manner.
On this occasion, Supreme Court judges Justice Suryakant, Justice Vikram Nath, Justice JK Maheshwari, Justice Pankaj Mittal, Justice Manoj Mishra, Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Justice Arun Bhansali, Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay, Union Minister Arjunram Meghwal, Advocate General of UP Ajay Kumar Mishra etc. were present.