Training prog for ministerial staff of subordinate courts organized

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 17: Training programme for ministerial staff of subordinate courts of District Headquarter, Jammu was organized by the State Judicial Academy under the patronage of Chief Justice and Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir, Judge Incharge State Judicial Academy here today. Officials including Junior Assistant and Section Officers posted in different courts of Jammu headquarters participated in the programme.
Anoop Kumar Sharma, Munsiff alongwith Jagdish Raj Thakur, Faculty Member were the resource persons. The topic for the training programme was Ethics and Behaviour, Accountability, Discipline, Office Management, Issuance of Process and Maintenance of files.
Director, State Judicial Academy, Abdul Wahid informed that the purpose of such training programme is to update knowledge of officials, sharpen their skills and sensitize them on their role in the institution. He stated that the ministerial staff of the courts is required to have different kind of mind set than those working in other departments of the Government as they have to assist in the divine duty of administering the justice.
He exhorted the participants to maintain high standards of integrity and ethical values and show humane approach to the litigant public.
Dwelling upon the topic, Mr. Anoop Sharma emphasized that the public in general and the litigants in particular have great hope and expectation from the judicial institution and the ministerial staff working in the subordinate courts being an important limb of the institution are also expected to maintain high standard of ethics and behaviour.
Mr Sharma gave many management tips to the participants which if acted upon will surely yield the better results. On the issuance of process, the resource person told that the ministerial staff is required to minutely follow the dictum of procedural law to ensure that summons are issued in light of the latest amendments carried in the relevant provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure.
The participants had a lively interaction with the Director and the Resource person by putting various kind of queries and getting the same satisfactorily resolved.
Similarly, a refresher course of Senior Scale Stenographers, Junior Stenographers and Steno-typists working in the various courts in the Districts of Srinagar, Budgam and Ganderbal was held at the High Court Complex, Srinagar. Abdul Hamid Khan, Ex-Joint Registrar, High Court was the Resource Person.