National Mediation Campaign (29 July – 30 September 2025)

National Mediation Campaign (29 July – 30 September 2025)

The Non-Adversarial Legal Approach To Justice (NALA) or the Mediation Campaign was a countrywide NLSA and Supreme Court Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee (led by Justice D Y Chandrachud) initiative, launched on 29 July 2025. The project will flow up to 30 September 2025 and has the tendency to promote the resolution of civil conflicts out of courts in mediation forms. The campaign covers a wide scope of cases, which comprise motor accident claims, matrimonial and domestic violence cases, land acquisition disputes, consumer disputes, loan recoveries, and service-related dispute cases. Cases that would like to submit can apply to any of their respective courts of law to be referred to mediation bodies. Such a campaign will be important in the effort of India to reduce its judicial backlog, which has, over the years, been a challenge towards the timely administration of justice in the country. By making the court mediation-friendly, fast, and cheap, the culture of litigation should not be encouraged as much as the constitutional vision of the provision of access to justice quickly and cheaply to all citizens of this country should be promoted.