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With these words, I support this Amendment.
>SHRI K. BAPIRAJU (NARSAPUR): Mr. Chairman Sir, I thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. I would like to make a few suggestions on High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill. I appreciate this initiative irrespective of whether the proposal has come from the judiciary to the Ministry or the Ministry itself has realised to bring this particular Bill. It is very much necessary to give all the privileges and required salaries to the High Court Judges as well as Supreme Court Judges. It is the life of a judge which has to be taken into consideration because most of the judges who are selected or nominated, as the procedure may be, to the High Court or the Supreme Court have good practices prior to that and they have to forego their flourishing practices. At the same time, his social life is being cut off.

While the Members were expressing their views, Shri Motilal Vora started expressing his concern about the existing judicial system, the prevailing conditions in our country, how common men are facing problems with regard to judiciary, etc. At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to the hon. Members for rendering their whole-hearted support to the Bill. Their suggestions would be utilised in the policy planning and its implementation by the Department of Justice in the future. During the debate, Shri Motilal Vora, Shri Ajoy Chakraborty, Shri Prabhunath Singh, Shri Chandrasekhar Sahu, Prof. Kurien, Prof. Jogendra Kawade, Shri P.C. Gehlot, Shri N.K. Premachandran, Shri K. Rosaiah, Shri S.P. Jain, Shri T.R. Baalu, Shri B.M. Mensinkai, Prof. Ajit Kumar Mehta, Shri Mallikarjunaiah, Shri Varkala Radhakrishnan, Prof. Saifuddin Soz, Shri K. Bapiraju, Dr. Subramanian Swamy and others gave their valuable suggestions. They have raised certain issues. The issues that were focussed during the discussions mainly relate to the pendency of cases, shortage of judicial officers and judges, modernisation of courts and providing infrastructural facilities to the judiciary, alleged encroachment by the judiciary in the domain of Executive through Public Interest Litigations, establishment of Supreme Court Benches at three different places in India, provision of High Court benches at least in the State Capitals, due attention to be given by the Central Government for revision of pay and other facilities of subordinate judiciary, corruption in judiciary, providing accommodation and transport facilities to the members of subordinate judiciary, improvement in the condtions of the court rooms including the provision of stationery etc., punishment for false evidence, review of transfer policy of High Court judges, providing expeditious and inexpensive justice, introspection by the judiciary, and restriction on re-employment of judges after retirement, especially after joining politics.