Tribunals are established as per appropriate statutory provisions and are observed as an alternative medium to the conventional judicial bodies for the redressal of grievances and settling disputes. A tribunal, in a plain language, is a. body of administrative character that has been powered with judicial powers to adjudicate one question
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of law or fact that affects rights of citizens. It has judicial or a quasi-judicial function and works in a judicial manner.
Issues attached with tribunals are:
- The law ministry has recently stated that several of the 36 central tribunals do not function to optimum capacity.
- many tribunals also do not have adequate infrastructure to work smoothly and perform the functions originally envisioned for them.
- Location of benches in Delhi only.
- After SC’s decision in L Chandra Kumar Versus Union of India in 1997 appeals from tribunals are reaching to mainstream Judiciary. This is against the objective of setting up of Tribunals.
- Economic survey suggests that Government is the biggest litigant and most of the cases comes after facing adverse decision in Tribunals.
- the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has been understaffed for the past decade, because the government has not created new posts.
- there is a lack of information available on the functioning of tribunals. Websites are routinely non-existent, unresponsive or not updated.
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