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GENDER ISSUES
20.10 Section 14(2) of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 empowers the central
government to extend the provisions of the Act to local or other authorities within
the territory of India or under the control of Government of India and to corporations
or Societies owned or controlled by Government of India. In exercise of these
powers, the central government had extended the provisions of the Act to 88 more
organisations this year bringing the total to 191 organisations so far.
20.11.With a view to improving the quality of judgements being delivered by the Central
Administrative Tribunal, an initiative has been taken to send the newly appointed
Members to the National Judicial Academy at Bhopal, for an orientation programme.
The first of the training programmes is expected to start soon.
20.12. For the first time, this year an All India National Conference of all the Members of
the Central Administrative Tribunal was organized on 2 – 3 August 2008 at Vigyan
Bhavan at New Delhi. The conference was inaugurated by the Chief Justice of
India and the keynote address on ‘Service Law’ was given by Justice Arijit Pasayat,
Judge, Supreme Court. The Minister for Law and Justice and Minister of State
(Personnel) were also present.
All India National Conference of CAT is in progress (August 2, 2008)
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