Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2021-03-01

Three Year Plan for the improvement of the infrastructure facilities in the Judicial Sector

- The undue delay in the mechanism of the administration of justice in Sri Lanka has become a challenge in ensuring the rule of law within the country. This situation depicts in many of the international indicators and it directly affects for the foreign investments as well. Therefore, it is vitally important to supply adequate human and physical resources to the judicial sector, apply of novel technology, strengthen the dispute resolution mechanism alternative to litigation process as well as introducing necessary law reforms in order to resolve this issue. Therefore, it has been proposed to allocate Rs. 20,000 million from the budget for the year 2021 for the implementation of a three – year plan for enhancing infrastructure facilities within the judicial sector. Accordingly, the proposal submitted by the Minister of Justice for the implementation of a project to develop infrastructure facilities in the judicial sector under 06 selected subject areas utilizing the given provisions, was approved by the Cabinet.