Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Meditation Centre, High Court of Orissa was inaugurated in a ceremony that witnessed the presence of various Supreme Court and High Court Judges as well as the dignified members of the bar. Chief Justice S Muralidhar said with the opening of the mediation centre, the High Court has for the first time, set up two permanent and continuous Lok Adalat benches with retired judges – Justice AK Mishra and Justice JP Das.
According to the reports, the High Court had last held mediation training for lawyers in 2012 and mediation training has been revived now with the conduct of a 40-hour mediation training workshop. The workshop was started with 15 lawyers from the High Court Bar and 15 from the Cuttack Bar on the day.
The Supreme Court judge stated that the broad-based committees should be set up right from taluka to High Court level and there should be an apex committee to monitor all panels. Chairman of the Academy Justice Jaswant Singh stated that the inauguration of the state-of-the-art mediation centre on the second flood of Aain Seva Bhawan is yet another milestone for the Orissa High Court.
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