The National Lok Adalat for the year 2023 organized on Saturday across the state and resolved only 2,489 pending cases with collection of settlement amount of Rs. 2.53 crore.

The Member secretary Tripura State Legal Services Authority (TSLSA), Datamohan Jamatia  said that based on the directives of National Legal Service Authority, a total of 66 courts of Tripura including High Court  has set up across the state to  resolve the pending cases of motor vehicle act and appeals cases, NI act, matrimonial cases, civil and criminal compoundable cases, family disputes, bank’s non-performing asset case, disposal of Traffic Chillan cases etc.

Datamohan Jamatia  added that altogether 11,346 pending cases has been taken up in courts for disposal including 5070 cases of previous disputes, 6276 court cases, 4393 of bank’s non-performing asset cases, 292 MACT cases, 8 cases of Consumer court, 677 non-payment of BSNL bill cases, 5,576 appeals cases,  219 cases of matrimonial dispute, 97 cases of cheque bounce (NI Act), 21 defamation cases, 34 civil cases,  and 12 more cases of land disputes taken up in the  66 courts across eight districts of the state including in Agartala.

Among the total 11,346 cases, 6,276 cases are pending cases and 5,070 are pre-litigation cases and during the day long Lok Adalat, altogether 2,489 cases including 1,901 pending cases and 588 pre-litigation cases were resolved in the Lok Adalat, said Jamatia and added that total amount of Rs. 2,53,93,003 has also collected as settlement amount.