administrative tribunal in each district

To,        Date; July 25, 2019

1.      Sh Monahar lal Khattar, Chief Minister of Haryana,

H No 1, Sector 3, Chandigarh.

2.      Sh Baldev Raj Mahajan,

         Advocate General Haryana.

Sub; Haryana Administrative Tribunal.

Sir,

         I congratulate you on fulfillment of long pending demand of employees in establishing Haryana Administrative tribunal. However experience reveals that single tribunals in a state are not effective. For example AFTs have more than 16,000 pending cases. In my humble opinion, I suggest following state amendments in Act/Rules.

1.      Establishment of one or more Tribunals in each district of Haryana depending on number of cases.

2.      Administrative Tribunal should be headed by one person i.e. any retired Judge or an advocate of Haryana having more than 10 years of service or practice as the case may be.  Preferably retired DJs/ADJs can be considered for appointment.

3.      Establishment of one or more Haryana Administrative Appellate Tribunals over two or more of Districts of Haryana depending on number of cases. It should be headed by one person i.e. any retired High Court Judge or an advocate of Haryana having more than 20 years of practice. The place of sitting of Administrative Appellate Tribunal should be in the District having larger number of cases or any place near to poor employees.

Ideally there should be established one or more National Administrative Tribunals over two or more States of India for which separate suggestion is being made to central Government.

In service to nation.

KD Aggarwal, Advocate.