BCI conference: 'Bharat' is present and future of world, says Solicitor General Tushar Mehta
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta asserted Saturday, as he extolled India's growing economic power which is attracting foreign investment like never before. Bharat, he said, is leading the world in terms of digital payment, and justice is being delivered to the litigants at their doorstep because of the government's initiative for digitisation.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Bar Council of India's (BCI) two-day 'International Lawyers Conference 2023' here, Mehta said there are 21,000 district courts, 25 high courts and the Supreme Court in the country, and now every document of every court is available in digitised format that anybody can access.
«Bharat is the present and the future of the world.
Even during the COVID period between 2019 and 2022, our country got the maximum foreign direct investment, and people are trusting our country even for legal adjudication,» Mehta said.
He described the two-day event, the first in India, as the beginning of an era in which the Indian judiciary and lawyers will be able to share the finer nuances of their legal system with their foreign counterparts and vice versa.
The SG said India has entered an era where it has achieved «100 per cent» direct investment through automatic route, an entirely transparent process.
«Our country is becoming an economic power house in the world. In the last decade, under the visionary leadership of the prime minister, we have taken several statutory steps, making new laws, policies and initiatives as a result of which India has jumped to 79th position in the index of ease of doing business,» he said.
Mehta said just before the function started, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice of the United Kingdom Alex Chalk KC, who was also
