Judges should help poor: Narendra Modi

 

 

Speaking at the foundation day celebrations of National Legal Services Authority, Mr Modi said “Every institution has to evolve in tune with the times. No institution can remain static. Changes are inevitable in tune with the times. There is a need to change the way we think — old things are best and that is why we will not lay our hands on them is not the way.”

 

Addressing a gathering of judges, law officers and legal experts along with Justice T.S. Thakur, the Prime Minister said, “I was telling Justice Thakur with diffidence, when there is recruitment (of judges) can we ask them how much time you had devoted for providing legal aid to poor."

 

"The government will support Nalsa’s effort to ensure justice to poor. You have done a great job in improving the institution. In every system, the boundary should expand consistently, its characteristics should keep changing and its power should keep growing.”