 of the Constitution Day celebrations as we observe the day when the Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on the 26th of November 1949 and the Constitution came into effect on the 26th of January 1950. We are honoured by the august presence of the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modi. We would also like to welcome on the days the Honourable Chief Justice of India, Dr. Justice Dhananjay Yashwant Chandrachoor, the Honourable Minister of Law and Justice Sri Kiran Brijiju, the Honourable Sri Justice Sanjay Kishankal, Judge Supreme Court of India, Honourable Sri Justice S. Abdul Nazir, Judge Supreme Court of India, the Honourable Minister of State of Law and Justice, Professor S.P. Singh Bagheel, the Honourable Attorney General for India. She is Venkat Ramani and Sri Vikas Singh, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association. May I request the Honourable Sri Justice Sanjay Kishankal, Judge Supreme Court of India, to deliver the welcome address. My name is Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Chief Justice of Justice Chandrachoor. She is Kiran Brijiju, my brother is Justice Nazir, the Attorney General, the President of the Bar, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to this year's Constitution Day celebrations. This day is of great importance to all Indians. I believe that it is not just an occasion to commemorate the adoption of a truly radical and transformative document, but also a moment to rekindle our commitment to our constitutional values. As we continue this effort, I would like to offer a few thoughts about the nature of this mission. Today, we commonly believe that invoking a court's jurisdiction is a very important way of protecting and enforcing our constitutional rights. We see this taking place in some of the more mundane matters of family and service disputes etc., and also in cases that are considered to be of great political and public significance. The Constitution tells us to repose our faith in the courts when such problems arise. When our courts evolve a comprehensive right-based jurisprudence, they are rightly seen to be upholding their constitutional duty. Thus, the idea of seeking justice has in many ways become synonymous with courts. This is certainly an area where we can get better. This year's Constitution Day program in many way reflects this ambition. It aims at enhancing access to justice through improving various processes of the court. Thus, the working session to be conducted today and tomorrow emphasise different areas of court reform. These include improving judicial infrastructure, adapting to newer technology, learning from the latest methods of case management etc. Considering the knowledge and the experience of our participants and speakers, I am very confident that this program will enhance our capabilities in this respect. However, it is my firm belief, born from my experience of serving in various courts for over two decades, that the mission of enhancing access to justice also requires a more collective effort. This is because our Constitution empowers every democratic institution in our country with the ability to secure individual rights and justice. In practice, this is termed as vernacular constitutionalism. It implies that our vision of justice need not be constrained to the pronouncements of courts or the development of legal doctrine. Instead, it can be a more continuous and decentralised exercise which involves aspects of day-to-day governance, social movements and deliberative democracy. To give a few examples, when the feedback of stakeholders is incorporated into law, it essentially preempts a court to achieve a similar result by reading down or invalidating that rule. Similarly, and this is something I have often emphasised, conducting a proper legislative impact study and examining the social context of the proposed law can be really impactful in preventing unnecessary litigation. Rather than examining the viability and desirability of the proposed legislation, it is also important to see whether the existing judicial mechanisms are prepared to adjudicate this new class of litigation that can arise. It is for these reasons that we need to rediscover this oft-forgotten element of our constitutionalism. Not only is it essential for a healthy democracy, it is an underutilised way of securing greater access to justice. Now I would like to highlight areas where our law makers and the courts can work together. First is the provision of legal aid. We know that there is a large problem of undernirals, languishing in prisons for extended amounts of time, and this is an area towards which we must urgently divert our attention. Our collective endeavour led to a significant change. The recent remission scheme for certain categories of prisoners to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the nation's independence was an exemplar in this regard. We can also concentrate our efforts towards conducting a thorough study of the effectiveness of the existing legal aid process, improving the ways in which legal aid laws are selected, provided them with appropriate incentives, training such laws more adequately, and introducing monitoring and accountability mechanisms. The second area where such coordination can be useful is in the creation of a comprehensive mediation framework for different kinds of disputes. That can go a long way in reducing the pendency of cases before our courts. I would like to end with a quote from Cicero, Justice looks for no price and no price. It is sought for itself and is at once the cause and meaning of all virtues. It is my most fervent hope that through the Constitution Day and the programs to be followed this weekend, we can mobilise our collective will to achieve the vision of the social justice expounded in our constitution by its great drafters. Thank you. Thank you, sir. May I now request the President's Supreme Court Bar Association, Sri Vikas Singh, to address the audience. Honourable Prime Minister of India, Srinarendra Modi, Honourable Chief Justice of India, Dr. Dhananjay Chandrachuth, Honourable Justice Sanjay Krishan Kall, Honourable Justice Abdul Nazeer, judges of the Honourable Supreme Court, Chief Justices of various High Courts present here today, judges of various High Courts present here today, other dignitaries, my colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. We have assembled here today to celebrate the 73rd year of adoption of our Constitution. Our Constitution was framed by a Constituent Assembly and the Constituent Assembly, as it was originally framed in 1946, had 389 members. After partition, the number came down to 299. Part of this, 70 were nominated by the princely states and the rest were elected by an indirect vote from the provincial assemblies. The members of the Constituent Assembly had deep vision, intellect and calibre. And that is how, with a lot of deliberation, they could produce this magnificent document which we all see today. But unfortunately, what will happen in the years to come could never have been foreseen by the Constituent Assembly. There were certain imperfections in the Constitution. The Constitution gave the responsibility of enacting laws to the parliament, executing laws to the executive and upholding the law to the judiciary. The judiciary in all these years, while doing justice, have also been noticing some imperfections in the original Constitution. And because of the indulgence of the judiciary of noticing these lacunes, the Constitution has been amended 105 times still now. The Constitution is an evolving document and it has to be an instrument of social change if it has to be addressing the issues of the citizenry of this country. It has to keep evolving. There are several issues which I feel still need definite corrective action. And three things which I think are very important for our Constitution to survive and to prosper in our country to grow and become a world leader is by bringing in law to bar criminals from getting into politics. The anti-defection law which has been made with a very salutary purpose of ensuring that there is no criss-crossing of people who get elected by a particular political party needs to be strengthened. A person who is accused or is found guilty of the anti-defection law cannot be permitted to get back into the same house. He should be definitely debauched for the entirety of the house in which he has alleged to have defected. And lastly, I feel that the Collegium system also needs improvement. I have always advocated that the Collegium system was the right system provided a function properly and in this functioning that we have seen so far, the basis of envisaging the Collegium system was that the judgment of the Supreme Court felt that the judges of the courts and the Supreme Court know the lawyers and accordingly they are in the best position to select the best of them. The premise on first blush looks very attractive but under deeper scrutiny it is seen that it is impossible for any Collegium to know the lacks and lacks of lawyers practicing in a high court. There is no method by which the Collegium knows where a particular lawyer is eligible or should be elevated. There are lawyers in law firms, there are lawyers in trial courts who deserve to be elevated. But this system of Collegium knowing the person personally to elevate is an extremely faulty system and in the process our judiciary is suffering and the judiciary being the upholder of the constitution needs to be given topmost primacy because even a law passed by unanimity by the entire parliament can be set at naught by two judges sitting in the courtroom. That's the kind of power that the judges wield in our system and to ensure that this power remains in the right hands we have to ensure that the system remains relevant. I will only beseech the audience here today to think about this because our constitution in order to be relevant and vibrant has to keep churning and finding out better solutions. With these words I will wish all of you a very happy 73rd constitution day in our 75 years of independence. Thank you. Thank you, sir. May I now call upon the Honourable Attorney General for India, Sri Aar Venkataramini to say a few words. Honourable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modiji, Honourable Chief Justice, Dr. Dhanande Chandrachoose, former Chief Justice of India and former judges of the Supreme Court and judges of the High Court, Honourable Minister for Law and Justice and Honourable Minister for State and Law and Justice, Sri Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General, Mr. Vikas Singh, President of the ACBA and my other friends in the bar, ladies and gentlemen. It gives me immense pleasure to be part of this assembly on being together to celebrate our twist of destiny with the constitution 75 years ago in solemn affirmation of our soulful commitment to it. When we gather in such solemnity year after year, we renew our affinity to all its aspects and most fundamentally to the constitution as our inseparable partner of life. Every utterance of the constitution takes place first through we the people of Bharat and Aviva and Bharat. We the people are the soldiers of a great nation who keep faith with the constitution by visiting its processes and promises in many ways and take pride in being free and being together. Being together is one great family tree. The Bharatiya family is unique, its roots are ancient, its wealth of knowledge and culture are special, its contributions to world civilizations are also special. All those enrichments of the past are being splendidly carried, shared and exchanged by we the people of India are Bharat all under the common heritage of our country and under the umbrella of the constitution. With that thought, our solemn pledge to them was the legal fraternity and speaking constitutional language with we the people of Bharat to journey with them to share their pains and agonies, joys and tears and to lend all of our shoulders in promotion of well-being and with equal regard for all lives. But the tasks are great and challenging. We eradicate some of the pernicious problems of caste and other social divides. The claims to equality is complex and accommodation to be made call for coordination between law, society and the courts without however creating new divides. The new entrance in the field of human rights particularly social media has shown open challenges of regulation. If you look at the number of rural unemployed urban adolescents in crimes and jails it is just concerning. The day when jails are empty of youth, the day when jails become really soul transubbative, the day when our courts at the initial level become comfort clinics, the day when every citizen in need of justice and finds it at the doorstep that day or to be the day the legal fraternity must be looking for. As you look at it as a point of rush for some employment or the other of somewhat educated youth it is disturbing. Economically deprived sections of minorities otherwise, another set of people whose justice needs also call for special investments. I do not wish to be talking stuff of distress. All they say that I share deeply the pains and agonies of all those who are in urgent need of constitutional justice. The new roads of constitutional justice for them have to be laid. The honorable prime minister always listens. His heart and mind never rests without listening. The 200 and odd years of constitution making across the globe and their duration tell us great lessons. The fragile democracy in various parts of the world teaches lessons. The loss of ability of people in certain countries to staunchly abide by democracy and stand firm by rule of law are also lessons. It is only by keeping agile on our freedoms and freedoms of those in lack of it. It is only by swearing away in open society where all distinction can melt that we would be keeping faith with the constitution. The legal profession and the courts are twin gateways. I do not propose delin on themes only of concern to the Supreme Court bar. We are only a microcosm. However, some issues of concern will be flagged. It is important that government stops overloading the court with endless statutory appeals alongside a seamless and huge flow of cases from my course. The conversion of Supreme Court into a small cause of court must stop, even though for one interval any court is good enough. Whether we keep engaging our thoughts on the National Court of Appeals or not, we need to strengthen our high courts and also decongest them, which alone can stem the flow of work in the Supreme Court. Our property dispute laws was undergo review and must become settlement commissions away from adversarial motions. Our family courts must become family comfort institutions. For doing all this, we need a permanent law reforms commission with legal reforms wing, court reforms wing, coordination wing with the courts, and a dedicated research wing connected to law schools. The vast spread of people in varied deprivation who are just as hungry remain untouched. They lack public defender's assistance. They lack neighborhood legal service provision, which must serve them 24 hours like hospitals. Every panchayat must have a legal service provision. In a digital age, making this happen cannot be a problem. The structure of free legal services, even in semi-urban and urban, are still far from matching the needs of demands. Most important and radically new ways of conceiving and organizing the basic needs through innovative institutional structures need to be explored. Socio-economic entitlements commissions, which can resolve social and economic needs and demands of deprived section of the community, will be conceived to relieve courts from inadequately addressing them. Also, the need to come to courts to settle matters of salary or pay a pension or retrial benefits must cease. If there be a justice provision tax on the rich and the able, let it be conceived. I suppose the administration of justice comprehends all means of fulfilling these tasks. For long, governments have been talking about litigation policies. There is no reason why this policy cannot emerge. Every department must have a resolution being with a competent and independent legal equipment to resolve fact-based issues. And every matter need not be a legal dispute matter. Only complex legal issues which cannot be otherwise settled must go for institutional resolution. I am confident that the government will lend its ears to an earnest attorney general to draw a quick roadmap and all the above. If only we dedicate one year exclusively for each subject, we can progress with great dispatch. I think rule of law is a non-violent revolution. We do not need any violent revolution. There's all such revolution or parts of totalitarianism. The more and more of rule of law means room for no violence. Bharat can lead the way by setting his own benchmarks. I would like to look for the day when the West may come for learning from us on justice standards. Colonialism of minds and people will then cease. By doing all these, our constitution will be beyond reputation and then refutation. Let us continue to march on the grand journey towards care of all and compassion without discrimination. I conclude my speech with a small poetry address my motherland. One nation of great mind and thoughts have passed so long and kettles many that nurtured knowledge of shades many, many. One nation of people with ancient roots with entangled menacing than boson's lodge. One nation that knows the dark divisions of faith and caste like spider webs can trip and trap. One nation of many tongues and cultures, faiths and creeds and blends and bonds of fiber strong by bleed of a mind, why freeze of a heart, why fence of a homes with petitons. Swords once drawn are poison strong. Words once dropped are slipping weeds. Fold all your clashes, fold all your noises. Little divides with constant chases can grow to cease big ceases quick. In composure, do all things flourish. In common pursuits of common will, little skirmishes do dissolve. One nation of parts in beauty drawn, in common resolve of love for all, let our oars ring and hail our life. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, sir. May I now request the Honourable Union Minister of Law and Justice, Sri Kiran Rijiju, to address the audience. Honourable Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi Ji, Honourable Chief Justice of India, Justice D. Y. Chandrachul, Honourable Supreme Court Judge, Justice Sanjay Kishankul, Honourable Judge, Supreme Court of India, Justice Abdul Nazeer, Honourable Judges of the Supreme Court, Honourable Former Chief Justice of India, my colleague S. P. Singh Bhagel, the Honourable Chief Justice and the judges of the High Courts, the Attorney General for India, Sri R. Venkat Ramani, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, President Bar Council of Supreme Court Bar Association, Sri Vikas Singh, Chairman Bar Council of India, Sri Manan Kumar Mishra, Senior Officers of the Government of India, friends from media, ladies and gentlemen. It is my honour to address this very August gathering to celebrate the Constitution Day. Constitution Day, or commonly referred as Samvidhan Divas, is annually celebrated to mark the adoption of Indian Constitution by the Constitutional Assembly in 1949, and also to remind us the significance of the historic day. Constitution is the bedrock upon which Indian nation stands and continues to achieve great heights every passing year. Today, this occasion gives me the opportunity to convey my gratitude towards the makers of the Constitution and also to promote and to reaffirm our constitutional values and reiterate the constitutional promise of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity towards the citizens of this nation. It is also an occasion to remember with gratitude the struggles and the sacrifices of our founding fathers. The founding fathers placed immense responsibility on the coming generations of countrymen to take the country forward in the path of progress. It would be apt to recall the words of Baba Sahib, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, when he cautioned us by saying, let us not forget that this independence has thrown on us great responsibilities. By independence, we have lost the excuse of blaming the British for anything going wrong. If hereafter, things go wrong, we will have nobody to blame except ourselves. Justice is the foremost introductory vision and aspiration that the people of India have promised to give to themselves and its generations. The constitutional promise of equal justice is based on equal opportunity and it is also a dream emanating from Article 39A. It is our constant endeavor to bring down barriers for accessing justice through integrating technology and other meaningful tools on making information accessible on a routine basis and in an easy to understand manner. In a country as large as ours, last mile delivery of justice remains critically challenged. New solutions have to be generated, integrated and interoperated across various available legal platforms to actualize the last mile delivery of legal services. From courts to citizens, quick, simplified and affordable access to justice should be the best word. To accelerate the movement of access to justice in India, the power of indigenous technology is being harnessed to mainstream legal aid and legal empowerment in the society. Now, seeking pre-litigation advice and consultation is a matter of doorstep delivery. It has been made possible through very low services wherein a citizen can connect via teleconferencing facilities with a dedicated pool of panel lawyers through downloading the tele-low mobile app or reaching to their near common service center within their villages. 25 lakh people have benefited from this service. In next five years, one crore plus citizens will be rendered with advice and consultation. To amplify the outreach of access to justice, legal literacy and legal awareness is being prioritized and made accessible in regional, local dialects using innovative techniques, both physical and virtual, of dissemination. To consolidate all these initiatives, Department of Justice has formulated a pan-India scheme on access to justice titled Designing Innovative Solutions for Holistic Access to Justice. In a vast country like India, where 65% of total population still lives in rural areas and where regional and local language is the medium of understanding. In most of the states, language becomes one of the perceived barriers in ensuring universal access to justice to the citizens of the country when legal material and legal terminology are not available in local, understandable by the local language, understandable by the common man. As it is, the Indian Constitution recognized 22 major languages of India in the age schedule of the Constitution. Honorable Prime Minister Modiji on multiple occasions has highlighted the need to encourage local language in courts to increase the confidence of the common man of our country in judicial system and to make them feel connected to. In this context, I'm happy to inform that under the ages of the Ministry of Law and Justice, the Bar Council of India has constituted Bharatiya Bhasa Samiti, chaired by former Chief Justice of India, Honorable Justice S. A. Bob Day. The committee, as a first step, is listing out words and phrases that are most commonly, frequently used in various branches of law, such as civil, criminal, and Constitution for developing a common core vocabulary close to all Indian languages for the purpose of translating legal material into regional languages. Such a common core vocabulary for all Indian languages will also help in translating legal material from one Indian language to another. By doing so, this will enable availability of lower textbooks and judgments, orders in local languages to students pursuing legal education as well as administrators and litigants, et cetera. Further, this will also facilitate working of courts in local languages. Once the medium and mode of legal education starts using the regional languages, it would pave the way of creating a local language ecosystem under which the entire judicial system would operate. Towards this end, our Legislative Department of Ministry of Law and Justice has already prepared a glossary of 65,000 legal terms. We plan to digitize this glossary of 65,000 words and make them available to all public in searchable format for usage for all. Simultaneously, all efforts will be made to collect a legal glossary that is already published in regional languages and to digitize it and also to make it available to the public in a searchable format. Therefore, by selecting the best available translation tool and by using artificial intelligence technology, a mechanism for speedy, large-scale translation of legal terminology of Indian language, Indian regional languages can be put in place to strengthen the ecosystem of local language. As part of Prime Minister's ambitious Digital India Program, E-Court's Mission Mode project will be a building block for paperless courts in future. This will ensure a transparent and speedy justice delivery system, an easier file storage and retrieval system, instantaneous access to voluminous records, thus increasing efficiency, making justice more accessible. I would like to give my sincere thanks to Honorable Prime Minister for making available education funds for E-Court's Mission Mode project for creating the IT infrastructure in the courts. This has enabled the judiciary to function even during COVID period wherein more than 2 crore virtual hearings have been held by the courts across India, making India a world leader in virtual hearings. The phase 2 of the project is nearing its completion. In the end, I would like to mention that on this auspicious occasion, we work as a team from the government side under the visionary leadership of Honorable Prime Minister. We are doing everything possible to strengthen the Indian judicial system and also to have a very close, cordial relationship with the Indian judiciary. And I am also fortunate that all the Chief Justices of India, the previous two former Chief Justice and the President Chief Justice, and the team of the Honorable Judges in the Supreme Court, as well as the High Courts led by the Honorable Chief Justices, we have shared very, very cordial relationship and identified those issues which we have to deal collectively on this auspicious occasion of the Constitution Day. I once again thank all those participants who are here with your guidance, your vision and your active support. We will definitely make India the most vibrant democracy in the world. Thank you very much. Jai Hind. Thank you, sir. May I now request the Honorable Chief Justice of India, Dr. Justice Dhananjay Yashwant Chandrachur to address the audience. Namaskar. The Honorable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modiji. The Union Minister for Law and Justice, Shri Kiran Rajuji. Minister of State, Shri S. P. Singh Bagel. My distinguished colleagues, Shri Justice Sanjay Kishan Kahl and Shri Justice Abdul Nazeer. My brothers and sisters on the bench of the Supreme Court, Chief Justices of the High Courts, the Attorney General for India, Shri R. Venkatramani, Shri Tushar Mehta, Learned Solicitor General, the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Shri Vikas Singh, Shri Manankumar Mishra, Chairman Bar Council of India, our most valued guests who are in physical attendance and citizens of India who have joined us virtually. I have pleasure in welcoming in our midst the Honourable Prime Minister of India. We are gathered here to celebrate the adoption of the Constitution of India, the foundational document of the world's largest democracy. Lawyers and judges spent their time and years unraveling the text of the Constitution. But the story of the Indian Constitution is not a story only of legal text and legal interpretation. It is a story of human struggles and sacrifices. It is a story of undoing injustice against the marginalised sections of our society, the women, the disabled, the Dalits and members belonging to tribes and segments situated in far-flung areas of the country. It must be remembered that the marginalised communities were the first to plan the seeds of the constitutional ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity on Indian soil. The first wave of resistance against the colonial power came from the indigenous communities of India. Our constitution is a social contract entered into between those who are in power historically and those who are oppressed and sought to change the power hegemony and chose to govern themselves. Coincidentally, this year marks 75 years since our nation attained independence. India's liberation from colonial rule and the drafting of the Constitution were simultaneous projects. The prolonged struggle for independence culminated with the demise of the colonial reign and the birth of an independent nation governed by self-rule. However, the death of the colonial regime was not accompanied by a simultaneous birth of constitutional values that we hold on so dearly to. When India gained her independence, she was invested with social evils. As the first prime minister said on the eve of independence, the past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. That has been the continuing constitutional project. As the Supreme Court said in its judgment in 2018 in Indian Young Lawyers Association, besides the struggle for our independence from British rule, there was another struggle going on since centuries and which still continues. That struggle has been for social emancipation. The Constitution of India is the end product of both these struggles. The Constitution of India is to a large extent aspirational for it seeks to deliver political freedoms and civil rights attempting to shrug off the colonial baggage. It seeks to remedy the injustices that are suffered in a socially hierarchical society. When the Constitution was adopted, the social, political and economic realities of our nation were in stark contrast to the aspirational ideals in the text of the Constitution. The Constitution interested the legislature, the executive and the judiciary with the role of bridging this gap between constitutional ideals and social reality. I am conscious that colonial and pre-colonial courts followed an approach of reluctance, disinclination and inaction in protecting the rights of citizens. For instance, scholars and historians have documented the refusal of colonial courts to interfere in cases involving social, religious custom even if the rights of the marginalized were violated. With the birth of constitutional democracy the culture of reluctance was replaced by a call for a dedicated judiciary to protect the rights of citizens. All judges across the courts in India ranging from the district courts to the supreme court must reflect upon the constitutional vision of securing justice, equality and liberty. There is a need for us to introspect on our actions and decisions and to question our own prejudices and preconceptions for until we open our minds to multiple views of persons with varied lived experiences we would be lacking in our role as judges. An institution thrives with time only when it functions democratically. I believe that as the chief justice of India it is my responsibility to collaborate and consult my sister and brother judges at the supreme court. The chief justice and the judges of the high courts are members of the district judiciary and the stakeholders of the institution. It is crucial that we tap on the experience of the diverse section of people who are part of the judiciary. Their knowledge and understanding would undeniably strengthen the institution. That is why it is all the more important that the representation of marginalized communities and women in the legal profession and the judiciary is enhanced. The Indian courts have been at the forefront protecting the rights of the marginalized groups and upholding the rule of law. The jurisprudence that has emanated from our courts in India has influenced decisions in far-flung nations as diverse as Australia, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, Uganda, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia and Singapore which share similar problems. In a nation as large, diverse and graded as ours, the paramount challenge that the judiciary as an institution faces is to ensure that the justice delivery system is accessible to everyone. Challenges require dedicated actions. The Indian judiciary has been adopting several measures of institutional reforms with a single objective and I borrow the celebrated phrase of American civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to describe it to bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice. We have been adopting technology to improve the working of courts. It is of supreme importance and necessity that the courts are remodeled to reach out to the people instead of the people reaching out to the courts in their quest for justice. To ensure that the courts reach out to the people, it is essential that the process of litigation is simplified and made citizen-centric. Though the judiciary's engagement with technology gained prevalence during the COVID-19 pandemic, we must not dismantle the infrastructure but build upon it and I would earnestly request the Chief Justice of the High Courts to ensure that the technological infrastructure on which public funds have been spent is not dismantled but strengthened further. The Supreme Court now functions in a hybrid mode with both online and offline courts which enable lawyers and parties and persons to appear from different parts of the country. Though the Supreme Court is located on Tilakmar, the Supreme Court is a Supreme Court for the entire nation. As the Chief Justice I am attempting to adopt technology-based services in the listing of cases and hearings so that institutional flaws such as delays in listing and hearing can be removed from our vocabularies. The E Committee of the Supreme Court of India uses technology to make the justice delivery system more accessible and citizen-centric. The National Judicial Data Grid is a repository of 77 lakh judgments of the High Courts that are available to every citizen free of cost. Many various citizen-centric services are employed to reach out to the people at the grass-root level. While technology has ably aided us in ensuring functionality of the judiciary during the pandemic, technology must be augmented with institutional reforms to resolve the chief issues of access to justice. The first interface of the people with the judicial system is the district judiciary. It is thus of paramount importance that the district judiciary is strengthened and supported. The district judiciary must be lifted from the mindset of being a subordinated judiciary. Today the Honourable Prime Minister of India is present here to launch the e-initiatives namely the Virtual Justice Clocks the Justice IS mobile application 2.0 Digital Courts and S3 VAS websites of district courts. The Virtual Justice Clocks is a platform where information available through the National Judicial Data Grade is made available to the public. Virtual Justice Clocks for the district judiciary of India are a real-time, informative public dashboard which provide information on three levels covering all the states, districts and court establishments in India. The dashboard provides real-time status which is refreshed and updated every 15 minutes. The Justice mobile app 2.0 is developed for the judges of the district courts in the country. The app is provided to judicial officers to monitor pendency and disposal of his or her court at the handset 24-7. Digital Courts is a green initiative of the Indian judiciary in the form of a desktop app that has been developed to make courts paperless or digital. It provides an easy to view case files documents while sitting at home. Judges can view all the case-related pleadings, charge sheets, court orders of both civil and criminal cases which aim at making the court paperless. And finally, the initiative S3 VAS website the acronym S3 VAS stands for Secure, Scalable and Sugamya Website as a Service. Through the Digital Court and S3 VAS initiative the websites of district courts are being upgraded from the existing system to a platform which is secure, scalable and accessible. Content published in the website is accessible so that even persons with disabilities including visual disabilities would be able to access the information using assistive technologies. These initiatives reflect upon the commitment of the Indian judiciary towards providing access to justice to our own citizens. Our endeavours to enhance access to justice this must not be understood in narrow terms of enriching the experience of those who are already in possession of access but by reaching out to those groups and communities that are denied basic rights. Access to justice must be defined in the expression of upholding the faith and perception that the general public holds in the legal system. I can assure everyone that the initiatives launched today are a part of a larger technological and institutional advancement of the Indian judiciary to ensure that even the most disadvantaged communities in the country do not stumble while reaching out to justice. Before I conclude I would like to emphasize on the relevance and constitutional values not just to the judicial branch but to all institutions and sections of the society. The evolution of a society can only ensue on the foundations of liberty, equality and fraternity the trinity of values highlighted by Dr. Babasey Bambedkar in his last address to the Constituent Assembly. Therefore I appeal to the young minds to reflect on the social realities of India and work towards achieving fraternity by dedicating themselves to the cause of justice in whatever way possible. Sometimes change happens by small acts of kindness the heart and the soul of law as it is administered in our courts is our sense of compassion to our citizens. With that I thank you Jai Hind. Thank you sir. May I now request the Honourable Shri Narendra Modi Ji to launch the E-initiatives of the Supreme Court of India as described by the Honourable Chief Justice of India. E-Courts is a mission mode project of the Government of India and implemented by E-committee Supreme Court of India. The following new initiatives under E-Courts project have been conceived Virtual Justice Clock Justice Mobile App 2.0 Digital Court S3 Was Websites Virtual Justice Clock It is a real time public dashboard which provides information of institution, disposal, case clearance rate, age wise pendency and listed cases at three levels that is national, state and district. Now citizens can access information from anywhere besides of the district court without physically visiting court premises. It is a step forward to fulfil the aim of transparency and accountability in judicial domain. Justice Mobile App 2.0 The app is provided to judicial officers to monitor pendency and disposal at fingertips. It is a tool available to judicial officers for effective court and case management. Now the access to this app has been extended to the honourable judges of the Supreme Court High Courts and Principal District Judge of District Judiciary. It generates alerts and provides statistical information of pendency and disposal. Justice Mobile App will facilitate policy making for speedy dispensation of justice and easy access to justice. Digital Court A green initiative where court records will be available to the judge in digitised form. Being integrated with e-filing and ICJS the case papers e-filed by the litigants so also the chart sheets FIR sent by Police Machinery on ICJS platform will be available to the court 24x7 Digital Court provides multiple annotation options for judges to digitally read and add comments on case files through various digital tools. Customised reports can be generated through combination of various search criteria. Unique feature of working in offline mode is also made available. Digital Court environment is cost effective, safe and secure mechanism which will enhance the efficiency and ease of doing business in judicial domain. S3 Was Secure, scalable and Sugamya website as service S3 Was is a framework that empowers the district administration to generate, configure, deploy and manage websites for publishing specific information and services related to district judiciary. The websites comply with the mandatory guidelines of digital accessibility. 15 district court websites are ready to migrate to S3 Was framework and all district court websites will soon be migrated on S3 Was platform. Let's join hands to build a futuristic judiciary to serve all. On this special occasion, may I request the Honourable Chief Justice of India to present a memento to the Honourable Prime Minister of India. May I now request the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modiji to deliver the inaugural address. Today was the day when India had a new future for its own. On this special occasion, may I request the Honourable Prime Minister of India to deliver the inaugural address. The Honourable Prime Minister of India has completed 75 years of his life of his life. We all are celebrating the new year. I honor the honourable Prime Minister of India and present all the members of the Parliament here on this special occasion. I present all the members of the Parliament to the Honourable Prime Minister. In the next 7 decades, in the development and development of the Parliament, Legislature, Judiciary, and Executives' un-ginted people have been working on this. On the other hand, I express my gratitude towards all of them. Friends, today, on the 26th of November, the day of the attack on the Mumbai Atom. Four years ago, when India was celebrating its constitution and the rights of its citizens, on the same day, the enemies of humanity attacked India with the largest attack. On the attack of the Mumbai Atom, who died, I express my gratitude to them. Friends, in today's world, the whole world is looking at India. The rapid development of India, the rapid growth of India, and the strength of India, the world is looking at us with great hope. A country, about which hope was set free, will not be able to hold its own today. Where would it go? It would go bankrupt. Today, the whole world is proud of its own differences. The country is moving forward. And behind all these, our greatest strength is our constitution. In the beginning of our constitution, the be the people is written. It is not just three words. Be the people is an event, an event, a belief. This feeling is written in the constitution. It is the main feeling of India, which is the birth of the people in the world. It is the mother of democracy. This is the feeling. We can see it in the state of Vaishali. We can also see it in the state of Vedas. It is also said in Mahabharata. We can see it in the state of Vedas. We can see it in the state of Vedas. We can see it in the state of Vedas. To stand with truth and to behave easily. This is the behavior of the state. In the present day, the constitution of India has organized all these cultural and political emotions of the country. I am very happy that today, the country is in the form of the mother of democracy. It is strengthening the feelings of its ancient traditions and traditions. With the power of pro-people policies, today the country and the poverty of the country, the mother of the country, the mother of the country, what is their power? For the common people, today the laws are being made easy. For the timely justice, our judiciary is also taking a lot of steps. Even today, the Supreme Court has started this initiative. I have got the opportunity to launch this initiative. For the beginning of this initiative and for the efforts of the eages of justice, I wish to congratulate all of you. This time, on 15th August, I had given the power to the revolutionaries. This is the progress of our constitution. Mahatma Gandhi used to say that our rights are our duties, which we fulfil with honesty, integrity and dedication. Today, on 25th August, when we complete the 75th anniversary of the revolutionaries, and start the next 25 years of travel, then this initiative of the constitution is becoming an inspiration for the country. Today, the revolutionaries of the revolutionaries are for the country. Whether you are a person or a society, our rights are our first priority today. We can take the country to a new level of development while we are on our journey. Today, there are new opportunities in front of India. India is ahead of every challenge. After one week, India is going to get the presidency of G20. This is a great opportunity. All of us, as a team of India, in the form of the world, should increase India's reputation, should take India's role in the face of the world. This is also a social responsibility of all of us. As a mother of democracy of India, we have to make it more successful. Friends, there is another speciality of our constitution which has become more popular in India in today's youth. Our constitution has given us such a constitution which is open and futuristic and is known for its spiritual vision. Therefore, in terms of selfishness, our constitution's spirit is youth-centric. Whether it is sports or start-ups, whether it is information technology or digital payments, the youth power is rising in every wave of the development of India. Our constitution and the responsibility of the future of the culture is on the shoulders of our youth. Therefore, today, on the day of constitution, I, as a member of the government, will make an agreement with the justice system of India. In today's youth, we should take the constitution and understand it more. For this, it is necessary to take part in the debates and discussions on the issues of constitution. When our constitution was formed, what issues did the country face? What happened in the debates of the constitution? Our youth should be aware of all these issues. This will increase their interest in the constitution. In this youth, equality and empowerment will create a vision to understand the issues. As an example, in our constitution, there were 15 women, and in them, there was a woman named Belia Udhan, who had come from a decent society and reached there. She has done a lot of interventions on many issues related to the constitution. Durgabai Deshbogh, Hansa Mehta, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, and many other women, have given importance to the issues related to women. The discussion of these women's rights should be less. When our youth will know these issues, they will be able to answer their own questions. This will create a vision towards the constitution that will strengthen the future of our people, our constitution, and the future of the country. In today's Amrit Kaur, this is also an important need of the country. I hope that in the coming days, in this direction, we will give more energy to our ideas and with this confidence, thank you all very much. Honorable Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modiji, and other dignitaries on the dais, ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a matter of great honour and pride for me to propose the vote of thanks on the 73rd anniversary of the constitution of India. The date today, that is 26th November, holds great significance for every year. It reverberates the beautiful and inspiring journey that we the people of India have travelled thus far since 1949, when the constitution of India was adopted. Fast forward 73 years, today we stand as the largest sovereign socialist, secular, democratic republic in the world, where the ideals of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity are secured to all the citizens of India. This could not have been possible without the foundational guidance of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and the monumental efforts of the members of the Constituent Assembly who drafted the constitution in such a manner and style that it not only recognises the socio-economic and political rights and interests of 1.3 billion citizens but also provides great adaptability to accommodate the changing needs of the times ahead without compromising on its basic structure. Swami Vivekananda once said and I quote, Every nation has a message to deliver, a mission to fulfil, a destiny to reach. The mission of India has been to guide humanity, unquote. In our mission of upholding the constitutional morality and values we must arise, awake but never stop. We in the capacity as judges strive to streamline our justice delivery system to make it more efficient and accessible for all while ensuring that the judicial institutions are at the forefront when called upon to adopt changes with time and technology. I extend my hearty vote of thanks to Sri Narendra Modiji, Honourable Prime Minister of India, Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, Sri Kiran Rijiju, Union Minister of Law and Justice, Sri Bagelji, Minister of State, Sri R. Venkatramani, Attorney General for India and Sri Vikas Singh, President, Supreme Court Bar Association for gracing today's occasion by sharing their valuable thoughts. I thank each one of you for participating in today's function. Thank you all, Jai Hind.