Bhubaneswar: April 27: After returning from his five-day tour to New Delhi, Chief Minister on Wednesday said, he had demanded the Centre to fill up eight vacant posts of judges in the Orissa High Court at the earliest. CM had been to New Delhi to attend the joint conference of the Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of High Courts held on April 24 and informed to the participants that Odisha has made substantial progress on the decision taken during the last joint conference held on April 5, 2015.
Briefing to the Media Persons, he said, ‘Government of Odisha has set up 30 Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) courts for trial of offences against women while 26 JMFC courts have been set up in remote districts’.
Also, Patnaik briefs on other developmental works like strengthening Odisha High Court with a litigant-friendly modern court complex, creation of Odisha Judicial Academy, one state level and 21 district level mediation centres and construction of 17 district court buildings. He also said the state government has agreed to bear the recurring expenses to implement the e-Court projects beyond the support by the Central government and to work towards digitization of the records of the Orissa High Court.
