Broken education system causing courts to be overburdened: Madras HC judge
TNN | Mar 31, 2019, 07.53 AM IST
TRICHY: Expressing concern about the overburdened judicial system in India, Madras high court judge Vineet Kothari blamed the education system for not creating good citizens, here on Saturday.
“All the disputes which arrive are because of wrong thinking. It is wrong because you don’t have the right education. Problems actually emanate from wrong education or lack of education. Before you are talking about any law, you must first become good citizens,” said justice Vineet.
He was speaking at the awareness programme on family welfare laws, organised by the district legal service authority at the Bishop Heber College.
“We are nothing but producing unemployable youths. Somewhere down the line, the education system has lost its status of creating good citizens. We are creating engineers who seek peon jobs and MBAs seeking clerical jobs. It is the joint and collective responsibility of all of us to put the education system back on track. I call upon people and institutions like you to devote your attention, time, energy and resources to create good citizens,” he said.
Saying that justice itself would be a mirage and won’t satisfy both the parties, he appealed the people to avoid disputes in the first place by respecting each other and not to endure the pain of going through the lengthy legal process.
“The number of appeals, revision, remedies and tiers of the legal system which India provides is nowhere in the world. The court system in developed countries is not overburdened. India has the most overburdened judiciary. The size of judiciary is one hundredth of what is required now,” he said, adding that mediation would be the best way to resolve a dispute.
“I feel 90% of the problems will be solved through mediation,” justice Vineet said, while appealing with advocates, para-legal volunteers and mediators to guide people through mediation and show them the right path.
On the role of the women in the family, he said, “If a woman wants peace to be maintained in the family, it is peace. If the woman wants it to be in pieces, it is in pieces. Women are the most powerful.”
He also interacted with students and para-legal volunteers during the event. Member secretary of state legal service authority K Rajasekar, district principal judge S Kumaraguru and others spoke.
TNN | Mar 31, 2019, 07.53 AM IST
TRICHY: Expressing concern about the overburdened judicial system in India, Madras high court judge Vineet Kothari blamed the education system for not creating good citizens, here on Saturday.
“All the disputes which arrive are because of wrong thinking. It is wrong because you don’t have the right education. Problems actually emanate from wrong education or lack of education. Before you are talking about any law, you must first become good citizens,” said justice Vineet.
He was speaking at the awareness programme on family welfare laws, organised by the district legal service authority at the Bishop Heber College.
“We are nothing but producing unemployable youths. Somewhere down the line, the education system has lost its status of creating good citizens. We are creating engineers who seek peon jobs and MBAs seeking clerical jobs. It is the joint and collective responsibility of all of us to put the education system back on track. I call upon people and institutions like you to devote your attention, time, energy and resources to create good citizens,” he said.
Saying that justice itself would be a mirage and won’t satisfy both the parties, he appealed the people to avoid disputes in the first place by respecting each other and not to endure the pain of going through the lengthy legal process.
“The number of appeals, revision, remedies and tiers of the legal system which India provides is nowhere in the world. The court system in developed countries is not overburdened. India has the most overburdened judiciary. The size of judiciary is one hundredth of what is required now,” he said, adding that mediation would be the best way to resolve a dispute.
“I feel 90% of the problems will be solved through mediation,” justice Vineet said, while appealing with advocates, para-legal volunteers and mediators to guide people through mediation and show them the right path.
On the role of the women in the family, he said, “If a woman wants peace to be maintained in the family, it is peace. If the woman wants it to be in pieces, it is in pieces. Women are the most powerful.”
He also interacted with students and para-legal volunteers during the event. Member secretary of state legal service authority K Rajasekar, district principal judge S Kumaraguru and others spoke.
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