New Delhi, March 20.
Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud will be the chief guest at the Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism to be held on March 22. The function will be held at 6 pm at the ITC Maurya, Chanakyapuri.
The award ceremony will be a celebration of exceptional journalism and will recognize the outstanding work of journalists from both print and broadcast media.
CJI Chandrachud also took part recently in the India Today conclave. As a participant in the conclave, he spoke on “Justice in the Balance: My Idea of India and the importance of separation of powers in a democracy.” He took live questions from the audience, a first for a CJI.
Hitherto, successive Chief Justices had been content to speaking to legal reporters covering the courts. CJI Chandrachud’s media outreach seems to have taken this exercise now out of the court complex. PM Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address at the conclave.
A great votary of openness and transparency, CJI Chandrachud has set up a RTI portal dedicated to the Supreme Court and has insisted that High Courts follow suit. He has also embarked on a massive digitisation programme to enhance efficiency and ease the workload of the judiciary.
In one of his first moves after he took over, the CJI had given a detailed interview to the Indian Express newspaper about his life and times. At the India Today conclave too, he spoke about his choice of music and which cricketer he would like to be compared with.
On long holidays for judges and delayed judgements, he said, that judges are also shaping the contours of a future society while delivering justice and hence needed time to reflect on their vision of what society ought to be.
