Supreme Court moves closer to live streaming of proceedings
New Delhi, Aug 24 : The Supreme Court on Friday moved closer to live streaming of its proceedings as it said that it was an expansion of the concept of open court hearing of matters without crowding the court rooms.
Reserving the order on a batch of petitions by senior counsel Indira Jaising, the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said: "Let us first start with it. We are just on a pilot project. We are not ruling out anything and will improve with time."
Justice Chandrachud expressed his apprehension about its likely misuse but others wanted to further expand its scope by including transcription of the recorded proceedings.
Attorney General K.K. Venugopal on Friday submitted the Comprehensive Guidelines for Live Streaming of Court proceedings.
It says live streaming of the top court proceedings would as a pilot project in the court number one presided over by the Chief Justice of India and would be confined to the proceedings of the constitution bench matters.
It is only upon the success of the pilot project, that live streaming would be extended to other benches of the courts as well.
The guidelines say that apart from live streaming of the proceedings, the court may in future also provide for transcribing facilities and archive the audio-visual record of the proceedings to make webcsast accessible to the litigants and other interested people.
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Karnataka govt seeks agency to manage rural drinking water units: Minister
Belagavi (Karnataka) (PTI): Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday said the state government is working to appoint an agency to manage clean drinking water units in rural areas.
The state Rural Development and Panchayat Raj minister was responding to a question by Hirekerur MLA U B Banakar in the legislative assembly.
"In the rural areas of the state, many clean drinking water units have been set up under corporate social responsibility (CSR) grants, including contributions by MLAs and MPs, and handed over to gram panchayats. After the maintenance period, problems have arisen in keeping these units operational," Priyank said.
He added that a proposal has been made to award a maintenance contract to one of the country’s reputed drinking water unit manufacturing companies, but so far, no companies have come forward to take up the work.
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"The government is continuing its efforts and will resolve this problem soon," he said.
On a query regarding fluoride content in water, the minister said water quality testing is being conducted monthly in all zilla panchayats.
"Laboratories have been opened for this purpose. Around 6.5 lakh water samples have been tested across the state, and water testing kits have been provided to villages," he added.
