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Beyond numbers
Raising the spot of Supreme Court judges from 33 to 37 is excessively humble to substantially wide the backlog of cases (Front page, May 18). Even if it is accrued to 100, thing volition improve. The request of the hr is fixed timelines, amended lawsuit filtering, less unnecessary adjournments, greater usage of technology, and judicial reforms alternatively than conscionable expanding the fig of judges. People privation not conscionable justice, but speedy justice.
Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,
Hyderabad
The determination whitethorn connection impermanent administrative relief, but it is improbable to cure the deeper organization malaise. Pendency is not simply a occupation of numbers; it is simply a occupation of judicial architecture. Former judges and ineligible scholars person repeatedly pointed to procedural delays, indiscriminate admittance of appeals, prolonged law hearings, and the Court’s translation into a regular tribunal of mistake alternatively than a law court. Even with 4 further judges, caller filings whitethorn proceed to outpace disposals. What India possibly needs is structural betterment — determination benches, stricter filtering of Special Leave Petitions, greater usage of technology, and stronger High Courts. Without rethinking the court’s relation and functioning, enlargement unsocial risks becoming an endless arithmetic exercise.
Gopalaswamy J.,
Chennai
Poor maintenance
The caller occurrence incidental connected the Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express has erstwhile again raised concerns astir rider information and the information of coaches utilized connected this prestigious train. Introduced successful 1969, the Rajdhani Express was 1 of Indian Railways’ premier long-distance services. However, it is disappointing that galore coaches present look aged and poorly maintained. I travelled successful the archetypal air-conditioned manager of this bid a mates of years agone and experienced h2o seepage successful the washroom and lavation areas, intelligibly reflecting ageing infrastructure and inadequate upkeep.
While the cardinal authorities and Indian Railways proceed to present caller trains nether antithetic categories, insufficient attraction appears to beryllium fixed to replacing ageing coaches successful flagship services specified arsenic the Rajdhani. Passenger safety, comfort, and attraction standards should ne'er beryllium compromised connected trains carrying thousands of passengers implicit agelong distances.
S. Subhash,
Kayamkulam, Kerala
