Job satisfaction just 5%, laments top SC judge
Abhinav Garg
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New Delhi
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The senior-most judge in the Supreme Court after the Chief Justice of India has a job satisfaction of “maybe 5 %“.Justice T S Thakur on Thursday made the startling revelation before a packed audience of international experts in mediation who are in the capital to attend a conference on the alternate dispute resolution system.
“Today I am in the Supreme Court, which is the most powerful court in the country . If you ask me how much my job satisfaction is, I would answer maybe 5%. That is because 95% of what I do doesn't give me satisfaction.SC is not meant for anticipato ry bails or to decide if a promotion of a head clerk should have been done by the government on time. It is for larger issues. But we are busy reading SLP files on anticipatory bail or if a person who dishonoured a cheque of Rs 4,000 should be sent to jail,“ Justice Thakur lamented. He was addressing the Asia Pacific In ternational Mediation Summit where mediators will discuss how to make mediation a better way of settling disputes than filing cases.
Addressing members of the American Bar Association and Association of Indian Mediators, Justice Thakur explained his remark. “There is any number of matters pending in Constitutional courts.Issues that impact lives of a large number of citizens and must be decided by us, but we are unable to attend to them.Mediation, if successfully done, will help the entire system get galvanized. The tentacles of appeal and further appeal can then be removed from court, freeing us up for dealing with core Constitutional issues,“ he pointed out.
“Today I am in the Supreme Court, which is the most powerful court in the country . If you ask me how much my job satisfaction is, I would answer maybe 5%. That is because 95% of what I do doesn't give me satisfaction.SC is not meant for anticipato ry bails or to decide if a promotion of a head clerk should have been done by the government on time. It is for larger issues. But we are busy reading SLP files on anticipatory bail or if a person who dishonoured a cheque of Rs 4,000 should be sent to jail,“ Justice Thakur lamented. He was addressing the Asia Pacific In ternational Mediation Summit where mediators will discuss how to make mediation a better way of settling disputes than filing cases.
Addressing members of the American Bar Association and Association of Indian Mediators, Justice Thakur explained his remark. “There is any number of matters pending in Constitutional courts.Issues that impact lives of a large number of citizens and must be decided by us, but we are unable to attend to them.Mediation, if successfully done, will help the entire system get galvanized. The tentacles of appeal and further appeal can then be removed from court, freeing us up for dealing with core Constitutional issues,“ he pointed out.
