The Supreme Court docket has constituted 26 in-house committees, assigning sitting judges to key administrative, supervisory and reform-oriented roles overlaying finance, safety, know-how, digitisation, mediation, public curiosity litigation, bar-related points and case circulate administration.
The reconstituted committees has come into impact from November 25, December 8 and December 11, 2025, and can proceed till additional orders.
The reorganisation has been entrusted with a central function throughout a number of committees. They are going to serve on the Finance Committee, the Departmental Promotion Committee of Gazetted Officers, the Safety Committee, the Constructing and Precinct Supervisory Committee, the Bar Grievance Redressal Committee and the Mediation and Conciliation Mission Committee. They can even a part of panels overseeing employees welfare, medical services, screening of senior registry officers and the allotment of attorneys’ chambers.
Justice B.V. Nagarathna has equally been assigned to a number of vital committees, together with these coping with finance, departmental promotions, legislation clerks, safety, household courtroom issues, bar grievances, medical services and accreditation of authorized correspondents. Her function spans each administrative oversight and justice supply reforms.
Justice P.S. Narasimha will head or serve on committees central to judicial reform, together with the Supreme Court docket Guidelines Committee, the Committee for PIL Issues, the Know-how Supervisory Committee, the digitisation and preservation of case data committee, and the Mannequin Case Movement Administration Committee for the Supreme Court docket. He can even serve on the Mediation and Conciliation Mission Committee and the Bar Grievance Redressal Committee.
A number of committees have been particularly tasked with tackling judicial backlog and systemic delays. Separate panels have been fashioned to border Mannequin Case Movement Administration Guidelines for trial courts, district appellate courts, Excessive Courts and the Supreme Court docket. These committees have additionally been requested to counsel concrete plans for lowering arrears at every stage of the judicial hierarchy. Justice M.M. Sundresh, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Sandeep Mehta will play key roles in these efforts.
A devoted committee has additionally been set as much as make ideas for lowering the pendency of legal circumstances throughout trial courts, Excessive Courts and the Supreme Court docket. In a notable transfer, the Court docket has included tutorial experience on this panel, with Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Vice Chancellor of Nationwide Regulation College, Delhi, becoming a member of Justices M.M. Sundresh, Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi.
Digitisation and know-how type one other main focus of the reconstitution. The Know-how Supervisory Committee will likely be headed by Justice P.S. Narasimha together with Justices Okay.V. Viswanathan and Joymalya Bagchi. A separate committee will oversee scanning, digitisation and preservation of case data, reflecting the Court docket’s push in the direction of long-term digital infrastructure and file administration.
Different specialised committees deal with areas akin to safety, library companies, cultural occasions, advocates-on-record examinations, accreditation of authorized correspondents and oversight of Supreme Court docket visitor home services. Editorial oversight has been entrusted to a committee comprising Justices Dipankar Datta, Okay. Vinod Chandran and Joymalya Bagchi.
The Mediation and Conciliation Mission Committee will proceed to incorporate judicial members together with Senior Advocate Rakesh Khanna and representatives from NALSA and the MCPC, underscoring the Court docket’s continued emphasis on various dispute decision.
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