Judiciary requires additional 2,000 employees to work full fledged

KATHMANDU, April 24: The shortage of sufficient human resources in the judiciary has affected the execution of justice.

Presently, additional 2,000 human resources are needed in judiciary to operate it in full-fledged. Lack of sufficient employees has barred the judiciary from using its full potentiality.

According to Supreme Court’s spokesperson Narayan Panthi, the judiciary requires over 2,000 additional human resources. The organizational management survey conducted by the SC concluded that 6,665 employees are required across the country for the execution of justice. Presently, judiciary is operated by 4,586 people.

The SC conducts the organizational survey in every ten years. In the past ten years, work load in judiciary has doubled. Increasing work pressure and lack of sufficient human resources has made the situation tougher.

The finding of the survey is that the SC needs more 147 employees including two of special class to cope with work pressure. Presently, it has 452 employees.

According to Spokesperson Panthi, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration has been already requested to endorse additional quotas as recommended by the new survey.

The SC has 21 judges including Acting Chief Justice, the high courts have 160 judges and the District Courts are headed by 238 judges. RSS