"The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari has said that our progress on achieving the Constitutional promise of securing to citizens justice, social, economic and political, especially to the poor and disadvantaged, leaves much to be desired. In many instances, it is the State that is the biggest and enduring litigator, forcing citizens and businesses to sustain substantive and notional losses as cases drag on in the labyrinthine justice delivery system. Addressing after inaugurating the “New campus of Gujrat NationalLaw University” at Gandhinagar, Gujrat today, he has said that the certainty of long gestation for resolution coupled with heavy costs to sustain the legal process has given large corporate and business entities added incentives to threaten or institute legal proceedings on civil matters. It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the brunt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial processes."

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