18 years wait ends: Bargarh got district Judgeship

With the formation of district judgeship in Bargarh, the waiting for long 18 years of the people especially the lawyers’ community has come to end on Saturday. While inaugurating the district judge court in Bargarh on Saturday the chief justice of Orissa high court V Golal Gouda, advocated the legal profession and said lawyers are pillar of the society who are fighting for the up-liftment of the  of the underprivileged community since pre-independence. “The role of lawyers has been considered as vital in a democratic step up like India”, CJ said. Underline the profession as ‘Noble’ Chief Justice Gouda appealed to both Bar and Bench to acquire training from experience to fight the new form of crimes that are brewing up in the modern society. While addressing the lawyers, he said that he feels proud to be a son of a farmer. “When 70% of the population of the country belongs to farmer community, every one of us should think for their development. Country will not achieve its goal unless the larger section of the society gets equal justice in term of health, education and food and shelter”, he said. CJ was accompanied with Justice BP Das and MM Das who also spoke on this occasion.

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On the other hand, after a gap of 7 years a chief justice was entered to the office of Sambalpur Bar Association on Saturday where he was felicitated by the lawyers. While inaugurating the ‘continuous legal education programme’ organized by the lawyers of Sambalpur, Gouda said how legal education has become essential for development of the country. During his 30 minutes speech Gouda tried to keep himself away from all controversial issues. Appreciating the members for their nice reception, he appealed the judicial magistrates and young lawyers to learn various legal ideas and opinion from the senior members of the bar. “Continuous Training is always required to bring perfection but the idea that comes through experience is much more important”, Gouda said. However he appreciated the lawyers of Sambalpur to have the idea of such training which helps them to refresh their legal education. “In the modern society every thing has converted in to super-specialty so lawyers are also be trained to make themselves super-specialty in legal profession”, he said

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During his visit to Sambalpur chief justice also inaugurated a permanent Lok Adalat in side the   Sambalpur court. He also laid the foundation stone of multi faceted ADR (alternative dispute resolution) centre.

It may be informed that no justice was coming to Sambalpur Bar over the past 7 years as the lawyers had decided to boycott judges of high court in view of their demand of high court bench. But this time they decided to welcome the CJ to put forth their grievance