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THE CITY
• Surat is a city located on the western part of India in the state of Gujarat.
• It is one of the most dynamic city of India with one of the fastest growth rate due to immigration from various
part of Gujarat and other states of India.
• Surat is one of the cleanest city of India and is also known by several other names like "THE SILK CITY", "THE
DIAMOND CITY", "THE GREEN CITY", etc.
• It has the most vibrant present and an equally varied heritage of the past. It is the city where the British first land
in India.
• The Dutch and the Portuguese also established there business centers in Surat, the remnants of which are still
preserved in the modern day Surat. In past this was a glorious port with ships of more than 84 countries anchored
in its harbour at any time.
• Still today, Surat continues the same tradition as people from all around the country flock in for business and jobs.
• Surat has practically zero percent unemployment rate and jobs are easier to get here due to very fast
development of various industries in and around Surat City.
OBJECTIVES
• To understand the functioning of a court complex,inter-relationship of spaces & handing issues like
security,accessibility & circulation in a complicated courthouse building.
• Learning how architecture can help educate the society about democratic values and inculcate respect
towards human/civic/environmental rights.
• Redefining the iconic imagery associated with judicial architecture,by breaking out of the imperialistic
and archaic architectural philosophy.
• Considering and responding to the socio-cultural context of the city while designing in surat.allowing the
district court to contribute towards the citys urban fabric and the cultural identity by making it more
connected and accessible to the grneral masses.
• Using architecture as atool to explore the opportunities to address the quest towards a better and
empowered society.the main objective is to explore the special quality of a particular building type,along
with the innate symbolism of the innate symbolism of the same.it also look into the relationship of the
project with city and hence the people and society.
CASE STUDYS
• CHANDIGRAH HIGH
COURT,INDIA.
• HAIFA COURTHOUSE,ISRAEL.
• SAKET DISTRICT
COURT,INDIA.
Surat City 2nd largest city of Gujarat in terms of Area and Population
•Shifting of transport godown, wholesale markets and St terminals to outside the city limits should be
examined on a priority basis.
•A traffic plan should be prepared for each township and city where local authorities and traffic police should
be involved. This should also include an integrated engineering unit.
•Periodic corrective engineering measures should be taken for ensuring smooth flow of traffic minimising
accidents.
•Periodic drives to clear traffic signs and pasted with posters. Advertisers to be held responsible for such
defacing.
•Parking is a major issue in urban centres. There should be no parking for at least 15 meters from a
intersection and 50 meters from a signal operated intersection.
•Rules for commercial building should be strictly implemented making it compulsory to provide basement
parking. Existing violations should be severely penalised and no future violation should be tolerated.
•Suggesting of the putting up fly-overs at the most risky points on the highway and city township roads.
•Putting up fly-overs are expensive propositions for which large fund is required.
•The fly-overs can also be made self-financing by selling available space for advertisements and hoardings.
•Suggesting putting up of escalators and / or crossing bridges in the corporations cities to reduce road
crossing risks.
•Pedestrian crossing should be made available at important places and people should be encouraged to
cross only at pedestrian crossings.
•Suggesting changes in road pattern on highways and in city/township in and around the accident zone.
•If possible bye pass should be constructed on such accident prone zones.
•In towns and cities such areas should be taken care of by deployment of policemen, installation of traffic
signals and alteration in engineering and road design
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Of the two crore pending cases, two-thirds are criminal
At the rate at which cases were disposed by India’s district courts last month, India could get rid of all pending
cases in ten years, an analysis of new official data shows. Six states, however – Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand,
Maharashtra, West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir – disposed fewer cases than were filed during the month,
indicating that at this rate, they would never be able to clear all pending cases.
Last week, the Supreme Court launched the public access portal of the National Judicial Data Grid with daily
updated information on civil and criminal cases filed and disposed every day in India’s district courts. At the
moment, the portal has data for 15,340 judges in 459 district courts across the country and information on the
performance of these courts for the last month.
As of 5 pm on Friday, there were 2 crore cases before district courts, two-thirds of them criminal cases. Ten
per cent of these cases had been pending for more than ten years – in Gujarat, nearly 25 per cent of cases
were pending for over ten years, while in Sikkim and Punjab fewer than 1 per cent were pending for over ten
years. 18 per cent of cases nationally were pending for five to ten years and 30 per cent were pending for two
to five years. The largest share – 42 per cent of all cases in the system – had been pending for less than two
years.
The data also shows the wide variation between states and districts in the rate of disposal of cases, according
to an analysis done by Open data campaigner Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu and his team at the public data
website ‘Factly’ calculated the ratio of cases disposed last month to those filed for each state and applied it to
that state’s pending cases. They found that that at last month’s rate, it would take India around 10 years to
clear all pending cases in its district courts. Nine states including Kerala, Karnataka and Assam could clear
their backlogs in fewer than five years given the rate of disposal last month and the size of their backlogs. Six
states including Gujarat and Bihar would never be able to clear the backlog given last month’s performace
“One month is of course not representative, but given that it was in many ways a normal month, it is useful to
analyse the performance of district courts,” Mr. Dubbudu said. The NJDG portal in its current form does not
help litigants but is useful for analysis and decision-making, he said; “We appreciate that this data has been
made available, but a lot more needs to be done. It is currently in a closed format which defeats the purpose
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