National Judicial Academy (India)

National Judicial Academy is an Indian government-funded training institute primarily for High Court Judges & Judicial Officers, working on deputation in the Supreme Court and the High Courts. It also provides training to the other Judicial Officers posted in districts on topic which SJA didn't deal under the Continuing Judicial Education (CJE). The institute was registered on 17 August 1993 under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.[1] N. R. Madhava Menon was its founding director.

National Judicial Academy
(राष्ट्रीय न्यायिक अकादमी)
INSTITUTION OVERVIEW
EstablishedIn 1993
TypeIndependent Registered Society
Legal StatusThe Societies Registration Act, 1860
DirectorJustice KN Saikia
ChairpersonChief Justice of India
LocationBhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Country India
Campus63acre
FundingGovernment of India
Academic ProgramNational Judicial Education Strategy (NJES)
PurposeJudicial Officers Training
Faculty17
Websitehttp://www.nja.nic.in/the-institution.html

National skills database

Apart from academics, the institute, with an aim to improve the functioning of the judiciary, is setting up an online skills registry of Indian judges, with their areas of proficiency, which can be accessed by the judges using their credentials.

State Judicial Academies

References

  1. "National judicial Academy". Government of India.
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