Opportunity For Justice - How Do We Ensure ?

New Delhi, May 30 (UNI) Members of the public are invited by a Parliamentary panel to give their views on a Bill to set up Gram Nyayalayas proposed to be set up across India to deliver justice at grassroots level, it was announced today.

The move is intended to ensure that no citizen is denied oportunity to secure justice by reasons of social, economic or other limitations.

Views of the public have been invited by the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice which is studying the Gram Nyayalayas Bill, 2007.

The Bill introduced in the Rajya Sabha two weeks ago-- May 15-- has been referred to the Committee headed by Dr E M Sudarsana Natchiappan, MP, for examination and report.

The proposed Nyayalayas are intended to give citizens at the grass-roots level access to civil and criminal justice.

Respondents may send their two copies of their submission to Rajya Sabha Secretariat Under Secretary Sasilekha Nair in Room No 528-A of Parliament House Annexe or E-mail [email protected].

Any submission will become part of the Committee's record and treated as confidential and any act contrary thereto constitute a breach of its privilege.

Copy of the Bill published in the Gazette Extraordinary, Part II, Section 2, on May 15 can be requested, or downloaded from http://rajyasabha.nic.in under the caption 'Bills with the Committee.' UNI