Cheriyanad panchayath
cheriyanad panchayath phone number 0479 2360149
email: cheriyanadgp ( at)
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nearest railways station cheriyanad , chengannur
(5km)
nearest ksrtc stand chengannur , mavelikara
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Cheriyanad important places
subramanyaswami temple Cheriyanad
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Cheriyanad litigation free panchayath
The kerala state government has selected the Cheriyanad panchayat for the
Swaraj Trophy for the best performing panchayat in 2006-07.
The award
consists of Rs.5 lakh and special plan assistance of Rs.25 lakh and a
trophy.Cheriyanad panchayat was the first panchayat to be declared
litigation-free in the country. It had presented notable performance in
integrated vegetable farming and organisation of self help groups for Scheduled
Castes.
Cheriyanad village, created history when Supreme Court Chief
Justice K G Balakrishnan declared the place as the ‘first litigation-controlled
panchayat,’ in the presence of thousands of village men who have sucessfully
implemented the experiment of ‘Panchayat Court’.
Also present were Kerala
High Court Chief Justice H L Dattu,and Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan who
declared Cheriyanad as the first legally literate panchayat in the country.
The chief justice said that Cheriyanad achieved this rare distinction when 3.58
crore cases were pending in various courts in the country.Five out of 100
persons are litigants in the country and about 48,000 cases are pending in the
Supreme Court alone.There is also a 23 percent increase in the filing of cases
in the country.
He has termed the Cheriyanad experiment as a meaningful
concept which can be emulated by thousands of other villages in other parts of
country, he said that the 73 and 74 amendments in the Constitution brought about
revolution in the panchayath iraj system.he also hailed the work of the Asok
Mehtha Commission in which former Chief Minister E M S Nampoothiripad was a
member for bringing changes in the Panchayathiraj set-up
Achuthanandan said that his government would take effective steps on reaching
out to poor persons with regard to legal affairs as soon as it received the Law
Reforms Commission headed by Justice V R Krishna Iyer.
Justice Dattu said
that the Kerala State Legal Service Authority (KELSA) was willing to help other
panchayats which wanted to follow the Cheriyanad experiment.
Kerala High
Court Judge J B Koshy, who is also the chairman of KELSA, Judge C N Ramachandran
Nair, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Vijayakumar and C S Sujatha MP
spoke on the occasion.
The Pachayat at Cheriyanad has setup local level
committee to facilitate out of the court settlements whenever disputes arise in
the village. The committee was very successful in minimizing the litigations
from the Panchayat disposing over 400 petitions locally ast year!
In the
beginning, the Panchayat president was the chairman of the village court. The
vice-president and ward members are the members. Later it was developed and
strengthened by including a retired superintendent of police, who is also a
legal expert, retired BDO, a college lecturer, a social worker and two standing
committee members of the Panchayat. The fact that more than 160 disputes were
settled within two years was a striking proof of the ability of the leadership
as well as the transparency in the functioning of the system. Thus, Cheriyanad
became a glorious symbol of the concept of “court in to people” rather than
“people in to court”. Disputes, which were supposed to be settled only through
legal courts and those to be filed in courts, were successfully settled in
village courts
heriyanad panchayath has been declared as the first litigation
controlled panchayath in India on 8th November 2008 .
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