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Chief Justice of India Surya Kant connected Saturday (January 3, 2026) laid the instauration chromatic for 7 infrastructure projects connected the Patna High Court premises.
The 7 projects see an ADR gathering and auditorium, an IT building, an administrative building, a multi-level car parking, a hospital, a residential artifact for Ministerial staffers of the Patna High Court, and an annexe gathering of the bureau of advocator general.
"The laying of instauration stones for the administrative block, the IT artifact and different facilities of the Patna High Court is precise crucial. I judge this juncture assumes a deeper resonance successful Bihar, which is simply a onshore that occupies a distinctive spot successful India's civilisational memory," Justice Kant said successful his address. He stressed that courts request to beryllium equipped with the enactment that allows "judicial authorization to beryllium exercised meaningfully". The CJI is connected a two-day sojourn to Bihar. He arrived successful Patna connected Friday (January 2, 2026).
The CJI emphasised connected "capacity building" which tin laic the groundwork for a justness strategy that tin "meet the demands of a increasing population, expanding litigation and disputes of rising complexity".
"The archetypal magnitude of this effort is organization capacity. A modern administrative artifact functions overmuch similar the tense strategy of the court," helium added.
Justice Kant asserted that the IT gathering volition people an important modulation from courts that are "paper-heavy and time-intensive" to the ones that "are data-informed, digitally enabled and user-centric." He said the ADR gathering and auditorium volition service arsenic a "place of learning and exchange" by hosting, among different things, ADR initiatives and conversations that volition "strengthen the narration betwixt Bar and the Bench." Justice Kant besides highlighted the value of a infirmary installation wrong the tribunal premises due to the fact that "justice is delivered by quality beings and not machines".
