It is unfortunate that the judiciary has to intervene, during the last two decades or so, in the omissions and commissions of the executives from the top to bottom very often. It not only eats into the time of judiciary in its routine work and delays the disposal of its original work in civil and criminal cases but also makes a sad commentary on the efficiency and integrity of the permanent executives in the performance of their actual duty.
I remember to have seen an intervention by the Indore Bench of M.P. High Court directing the Ujjain district administration to take up the work of cleaning the Shipra River in a given period under the supervision of the Divisional Commissioner of Ujjain Division. The file concerning this subject came to me, the undersigned, the moment I took over as the commissioner in October, 2000. I was really shocked and also felt ashamed of the role of my tribe, the Indian Administrative Service, for having failed in their basic duty and the necessity of getting a direction for performing that duty from the high court on the basis of a P.I.L (Public Interest Litigation).
Of late every public inconvenience is unresolved and unattended with the result the public is forced to approach the courts for justice and problem-solving. The number is increasing day by day. If the trend continues, we may have to reduce the strength of the bureaucratic set up and increase the number of judges both in High Courts and the Supreme Court.
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