Arbitration Centre Inaugurated At Orissa High Court

On Saturday, an Arbitration Centre was inaugurated at the Orissa High Court by Justice L. Nageswara Rao, Judge, Supreme Court of India.

The Arbitration Centre is located in the third floor of Aain Seva Bhawan, Cuttack. A Mediation Centre was also inaugurated in the building, last month.

Justice Rao hailed the role of arbitration during the pandemic and expressed hope that with such a state-of-the-art centre in Odisha, it would afford speedy and inexpensive justice to the litigants.

Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court, Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar was also present in the ceremony. He elaborated on the importance of arbitration in Odisha in the backdrop of growing industrial and commercial activities in recent times. He stressed on the need of lawyers' participation for the success of arbitration as an effective mode of alternative dispute redressal mechanism.

Justice Muralidhar also mentioned that the building of Aain Seva Bhawan which houses the Odisha State Legal Services Authority, Mediation Centre, Arbitration Centre and the Permanent and Continuous Lok Adalats of the High Court, is like a bouquet of different choices of dispute resolution for the litigants and the lawyers.

Other Judges of the Orissa High Court, Advocate General Ashok Kumar Parija, President of High Court Bar Association Jagabandhu Sahoo, along with Vice President Devi Prasad Dash, Secretary Dr. Jitendra Kumar Lenka and other office bearers of the Bar Association also attended the event.