On the Constitution Day, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice DY Chandrachud emphasised the importance of technology in ensuring that the delivery of justice and governance reach the most marginalised and remote women and the poorest of the poor.
“Pro-people policies have strengthened the poor, women and marginalised. Legislations and laws are being simplified. The judiciary is taking many meaningful steps for timely justice. E-initiatives of the Supreme Court and the attempts towards ease of justice must be carried forward,” the PM Modi said at the function at the Supreme Court to commemorate adoption of the Constitution on November 26, 1949.
The judiciary must make sure that everyone may access the justice delivery system. Challenges call for committed action. According to Martin Luther King Jr., the Indian judiciary has implemented a number of reforms "to bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice," the CJI said, promising to increase the representation of women and other marginalised groups in the judiciary.
“The world is looking up to India today because of its rapid development, fast expanding economy and the influential position of India in the international stage. The world is looking with expectation at India, a country about which there were apprehensions that it would not be able to remain independent and would wither away because of its vast diversity,” the PM said.
The youth have a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate why India's growth story is capturing the attention of the world and how the "mother of all democracies" brought all of her citizens together while respecting their diversity to overcome issues during India's G20 chairmanship, he continued.
“Today with all its energies and taking pride in its diversities, this country is moving forward. Behind this success, the most powerful tool is the Constitution. ‘We the People’ is not merely three words, it is exhortation, a promise and a belief. This constitutional ethos is rooted in the Indian ethos embedded in everyone from ancient times and that is why India is known as the mother of all democracies,” he added.
