21-Mar-96 : Resolution notification issued by the Dept. of Justice, Ministry of Law Justice & Company Affairs published in the gazette of India dated 22-3-96 constituting the Commission & indicating the terms of reference.

02-Apr-96 : Sri K.R. Chamayya assumed charge as Member-Secretary of the Commission.

24-Apr-96 : Justice Sri P.K. Bahri(Rtd.) assumed charge as Member of the Commission.

08-May-96 : High Court of Karnataka spared 3 court halls with attached chambers in the first floor of the City Civil Court Complex Annexe, Bangalore for the office of the Commission.

01-Jun-96 : Justice Sri. K. Jagannatha Shetty( Rtd.) Former Judge, Supreme Court of India, assumed charge as the Chairman of the Commission.

31-Jul-96 : The Chairman issued preliminary questionnaire with 21 questions to the Chief Justices of all 18 High Courts in India.

27-Aug-96 : Resolution by the Dept. of Justice notifying Justice Sri A.B. Murgod (Rtd.) as Member Secretary, since Sri K.R. Chamayya resigned.

28-Aug-96 : Justice Sri A.B. Murgod (Rtd.) assumed the office of Member Secretary.

15-Oct-96 : Sri H.G. Srivara, Senior KAS Officer, on deputation from Govt. of Karnataka assumed charge as Deputy Secretary.

14-Nov-96 : Sri K. Vittal Sheregar, Retd. Dist. Judge, assumed charge as P.P.S.to The Chairman.

30-Nov-96 : Sri. G. Narayana Rao, Deputy Director, Sri H.S. Vijayendra Kumar, Assistant Director and Sri H. Muniraju, Statistical Assistant, on deputation from Govt. of Karnataka assumed charge.

10-Dec-96 : The Commission held discussion with the Judicial Officers of Karnataka.

14-Dec-96 : The Chairman held discussion with Judicial Officers at Chennai.

2nd and 3rd Jan '97 : The Chairman held discussion with Judicial Officers at Mangalore and Udupi.

22-Feb-97 to 24-Feb-97 :

The Chairman held meetings at Mumbai with :

(1) the Judges of the City Civil Courts, Mumbai;

(2) the Office bearers of the Association of the Judicial Officers of the Moffusil Courts of Pune & Nagpur; and

(3) Judicial Officers at Mumbai.

25th and Feb '97 : The Chairman held discussion with the Judicial Officers at 26^th Mangalore and Udupi.

04-Mar-97 : Sri R. Ramachandra, Retired Asst. Controller, State Accounts Dept. in Govt. of Karnataka is appointed as Section Officer on re-employment basis.

15-Mar-97 : Release of Questionnaire of the Commission by Justice Sri R.P. Sethi, Hon'ble Chief Justice of Karnataka at 10.30 A.M. in Conference Hall, Vidhana Soudha, Bangalore.

17-Mar-97 : Questionnaire despatched to Minister of State for Law & Justice, Govt. of India, High Courts, States, UTs, Eminent persons, Judicial Officers' Associations, Bar Associations and others.

21-Mar-97 : Meeting with IIM Director & faculty members held.

15-Apr-97 : The Chairman held discussion with Judicial officers at Coimbatore.

23-Apr-97 : Despatch of Questionnaire to Bar Associations, Eminent persons and others.

02-May-97 : NLSIU agreed to render professional consultancy services regarding the histroy of judiciary.

07-May-97 : Govt. requested to empower the Commission for recommending Interim Relief, letter written by Chairman to Hon'ble Minister of Law & Justice, GOI.

09-May-97 : Meeting with Sri S.S. Vaidyanathan, C.A.O. of IIM held.

13-May-97 : Meeting with Sri S. Ramanathan, IAS(Rtd.), President, IIPA, Bangalore branch, held.

4th and 5th Jun '97 : The Member held discussion with Judicial Officers at Karnal and Solan.

06-Jun-97 : The Member held discussion with Judicial Officers at Narakanda.

06-Jun-97 : The Commission engaged IIPA as Consultant by farming out the study on "Determination of Rational Salary Structure for the Subordinate Judiciary".

08-Jun-97 : The Chairman held discussion with Judicial officers at Tirumala.

09-Jun-97 : The Member held discussion with Judicial Officers at Rampur.

10-Jun-97 : The Member held meeting with Hon'ble Chief Justice, Hon'ble Judges of Shimla High Court, Judicial Officers, Chief Judicial Magistrate and Hon'ble Law Minister of Himachal Pradesh.

01-Aug-97 : Meeting with Sri M.C. Gupta, Director, Prof. Minocha, Sri S. Ramanathan and Prof. Singh, IIPA held by the Chairman & Member-Secretary.

02-Aug-97 : Meeting held with IIPA Faculty Members & District Judges by Chairman and Member-Secretary.

04-Aug-97 : Meeting held with IIMB Officers in the Chambers of the Chairman.

09-Sep-97 : Meeting held with Mr. Justice Badru Zaman, Director General, Sri Iktedar Ahmed, Director and other Officers of Judicial Training Institute, Dhaka, Bangla Desh, at Commission's Office, Bangalore.

10-Sep-97 : The Chairman held discussion with the Chief Justice, Delhi High Court and other Judges at Delhi.

11-Sep-97 : The Chairman met the Central Law Minister and the Professors of IIPA at Delhi and held discussion.

14-Sep-97 : The Chairman participated in U.P. Judicial Officers' Conference at Luknow.

19-Sep-97 : Discussions with Sri S.S. Vaidyanathan and Prof. S.Krishna of IIM, Bangalore, to finalise the Questionnaire prepared by IIM as part of their study.

16-Oct-97 : Meeting with Advocate-General of Karnataka held by the Chairman in the Commission.

22-Oct-97 : Meeting held with officers of GIC & LIC.

28-Oct-97 : Meeting with Officers of GIC & LIC continued with a view to ascertaining the beneficial schemes, if any, to Judicial Officers.

17-Nov-97 : The comprehensive compilation of the Cadres, Pay Scales, Promotion formulae etc., of all the Judicial Officers under all the 18 High Courts forwarded to High Courts for verification.

05-Dec-97 : Arranged the visit of Sri S. Ramanathan, Regional Director, IIPA to Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivendrum & Pondicherry for the Commission's work.

21-Dec-97 : Meeting with Judicial Officers at Tumkur by the Chairman.

28th and 29^th Jan '98 : Discussion with selected Judl. Officers and Associations viz., Sri N.S. Saini, General Secretary, AIJA, Sri R.C.Chavan, President, Maharashtra State Judl. Officers' Association, Sri V.P. Patil, Judge, First Labour Court, Mumbai,. P.N. Santhakumari, Vice President, AIJA , Sri K.R. Prasad Rao, Prl. City Civil & Sessions Judge, Bangalore, Sri K. Sreedhar Rao, Prl. Dist. Judge, Bangalore, Sri A.M. Bennur, General Secretary, KSJO Association, Sri P. Muraleedharan, Secy, Kerala Magistrates' Assn., Sri Antony T. Moraes, President, Kerala Magistrates' Assn. and others.

31-Jan-98 : Interim Relief Report finalised by the Commission.

03-Feb-98 : The Interim Relief Report was forwarded to all the 25 States/ 7 UTs / 18 HCs / 15 Benches and Associations.

03-Feb-98 : Press meet by Chairman for announcing the IR.

10-Feb-98 : Heard Law graduate Employees' Association of the Kerala State.

01-Mar-98 : Dr. Madhava Menon, Consultant engaged by the Commission, met the Chairman & Member-Secretary at the residence of Chairman.

02-Mar-98 : Forwarded material pertaining to training of Judicial Officers to Dr. Madhava Menon, Trivendrum.

11-Mar-98 : Despatch of preliminary proforma regarding Court staff to All High Courts/ Chief Secretaries/ HC Benches/ Associations.

17-Mar-98 : The Commission held meeting with HC Judges viz., Justice Patri Basanagoud, Justice Venkataraman and Justice Venkatesha Murthy reg. Education & Training to Judicial Officers.

23-Mar-98 : Executive members of Employees Confederation, Karnal met the Member-Secretary.

24-Mar-98 : Executive members of Employees Confederation, Karnal met the Chairman.

07-Apr-98 : Forwarded Circular No.1 to all the High Courts in respect of staff with a request to circulate the same to associations also.

07-Apr-98 : Clarification to Circular regarding IR regulation issued to States / UTs / HCs.

20-Apr-98 : Dr. Menon arrived at Bangalore, discussion held regarding education & training.

21-Apr-98 : Circular on Family Court Act 1984 & rules framed there under issued & Press note also issued.

22-Apr-98 : Questionnaire on Education & Training was forwarded to all the important editors of daily news papers, Law Companies and Federations.

27-Apr-98 : Sri B. Krishna Murthy, Rtd. Asst. Registrar of HC of Karnataka is appointed as P.S.to Member Secretary on reemployment basis.

04-Jun-98 : Information regarding working conditions of Subordinate Judiciary from a few Commonwealth countries secured through GOI.

24-Jun-98 : The Chairman held discussion with Judges of High Court and Subordinate Courts at Hyderabad.

20-Jul-98 : Dr. Menon visited the Commission and discussed regarding Education & Training aspects.

22-Jul-98 : Sri R. Ramapriya on deputation from Govt. of Karnataka assumed charge as Joint Director of Economics & Statistics .

30-Jul-98 : Forwarded clarifications regarding IR to all the Registrars of HCs/State Govts. / UTs.

13-Aug-98 : Sri M.C. Gupta, IIPA Director, presented the report on rationalisation of pay structure to the Chairman.

27-Aug-98 : NLSIU presented the report of consultancy on Histoy of Judiciary in various States to the Chairman.

01-Sep-98 : Meeting held with Prof. S. Krishna of IIMB regarding draft Report on the topic of Consultancy.

10-Sep-98 : Dr. Menon visited the Commission. Inormation taken from internet was furnished to Dr. Menon.

16-Sep-98 : Responses to the questionnaire issued on Judicial Education and Training were forwarded to Dr.N.R.Madhava Menon, Consultant to FNJPC .

The Chairman visited IIMB to finalise the venue for holding the National Consultative Activity on 12th and 13th December 1998.

24-Sep-98 : Questionnaire to obtain additional information during the personal hearing was designed.

05-Oct-98 : Notices for personal hearing during November and December, 1998 were despatched to all the High Courts, State Governments, Associations and Individuals.

16-Oct-98 : Responses to questionnaire on Judicial Education and Training were forwarded to Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon.

02-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Andhra Pradesh Judicial Officers' Association, Hyderabad and Personal hearing of Tamilnadu Judicial Officers' association, Chennai/Administration of Pondicherry/A.P. Pensioners' Association is held.

05-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Kerala Judicial Officers' Association/Kerala Magistrates' (Judl.) Association, Kerala / Administration of Lakshadweep is held.

09-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Bihar Judicial Service Association-Civil Court, Patna is held.

11-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Kerala Judicial Officers' Association is held.

12-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Assam Judicial Service Association/ North Eastern Judicial Officers' Association, Silchar, Assam/Tripura Judicial Officers' Association, Agartala/Manipur Judicial Officers' Association Imphal/Mizoram Judicial Service Association, Aizawl/Arunachal Pradesh/Nagaland/Meghalaya /Sikkim is held.

16-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Uttar Pradesh Judicial Services' Association, Lucknow is held.

18-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of the Punjab Judicial Officers' Association, Chandigarh/Haryana State Judges'Association (Addl.Dist & Sessions Judge), Haryana/Haryana Civil Judges' Association/Administration of Chandigarh is held.

20-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Delhi Judicial Service Association, New Delhi./Delhi Higher Judicial Officers Association/Bihar Superior Judicial Service Association is held.

23-Nov-98 : All the High Courts and the concerned invited to participate in the National Consultative Activity to be held on 12th and 13th December 1998. Core chapters of the Consultative Activity were forwarded to all the invitees alongwith the invitations.

30-Nov-98 : Personal hearing of Madhya Pradesh Judges Association and Dist. & Sessions Judge, Raipur(M.P) and Personal hearing of Rajasthan Judicial Service Officers' Association, Jaipur is held.

02-Dec-98 : Personal hearing of Maharastra State Judicial Service Association, Mumbai/Administration of Daman & Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli/The Goa Judicial Officers' Association, Goa is held.

03-Dec-98 : Personal hearing of Gujarat Judicial Service Association, Ahmedabad is held.

03-Dec-98 : The Member held discussion with Judicial Officers in Madurai.

04-Dec-98 : The Member held discussion with Judicial Officers in Rameshwaram.

05-Dec-98 : The Member continued discussion with Judicial Officers in Madurai.

06-Dec-98 : The Chairman held discussion with Judicial Officers at Mysore.

06-Dec-98 / 07-Dec-98 : The Member held discussion with Judicial Officers in Kanyakumari and Trivendrum.

07-Dec-98 : Personal hearing of West Bengal Judicial Services Association/West Bengal Judicial Officers' Democratic Association, Calcutta Administration of Andaman & Nicobar Islands is held.

07-Dec-98 :Personal hearing of Jammu & Kashmir Judicial Service Association, Srinagar/Jammu, Himachal Pradesh Law Officers(Attorney) Association/Himachal Pradesh Judicial Service Officers' Association/All India Judges'Association, Civil Judge (Sr.Dn.) is held.

09-Dec-98 : Personal hearing of Karnataka State Judicial Officers' Association, Bangalore/All India Judges' Association is held.

09-Dec-98 : Personal hearing of Law Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland is held.

10-Dec-98 : Personal hearing of Karnataka State Judicial Officers' Association, Bangalore/All India Judges' Association is held.

12-Dec-98 / 13-Dec-98 : Conduct of National Consultative Activity on Judicial Education and Training/Information technology for Judiciary at IIMB inaugurated by Hon'ble Mr. Justice B.N. Kirpal of the Supreme Court.

12-Jan-99 : Personal hearing of All India Direct Recruits Higher Judicial Services Association is held.

13-Jan-99 : Personal hearing of Registrar, High Court of Sikkim/Retired Judges' Association, Calcutta is held.

Receipt of the Consultancy Report from IIMB on improving work methods and work environment in the subordinate courts in India.

15-Jan-99 / 16-Jan-99 :The Chairman held discussion with Judicial Officers at Belgaum and participated in Karnataka State Judicial Officers' Conference at Belgaum.

22-Feb-99 / 23-Feb-99 : Personal hearing of All India Judges' Association is held.

24-Feb-99 : Personal hearing of Gujarat Labour Courts Judicial Officers Association, Ahmedabad and Sri V.P. Patil, Judge, First Labour Court, Mumbai is held.

28-Mar-99 : The Chairman participated in the annual conference of AP Judicial employees Conference as Guest of Honour at Hyderabad.

30-Mar-99 : The Chairman held meeting with the Chief Justice and other Judges of the Madras High Court at Chennai.

30-Mar-99 : The Chairman held discussion and received representation from the Office bearers of the Employees' Association of the Subordinate Courts of Tamil Nadu and participated in their annual conference at Chennai.

02-Apr-99 : The Chairman held discussion with Courts staff/ Judicial employees Association in Mangalore.

29-Jun-99 : Receipt of the Consultancy Report from Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon on Judicial Education and Trainnig.

21-July-99 : Receipt of the Consultancy Report from Mr. K.R. Chamayya - Draft Judicial Service Rules, Draft Civil Courts Bill, Family Court Judges Recruitment Rules.

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