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It is a Sindhi community mediation centre in Indorethat is functioning likea court but actually helping the district court of Indore and the high court bench from clogging further...
Its 10 in the morning and one of the rooms at Swami Pritamdas Auditorium in Indores crowded Sindhi Colony is packed,ready for the 8th hearing of the Sevkani family dispute..
These training programs were started due to Justice Vivek Rusias vision of community mediation in the Indore bench of MP High Court, he says.. Shamim says that 20 hours of training is given to eminent people in which they are informed about the basics of mediation..
Verma, memberand mediatorof the Kori-Koli Mediation Center, says that initially they would go to peoples homes to hear cases.But there were incidents where we faced flak from concerned parties who alleged justice was compromised because the hearing didnt occur at a neutral ground.Later, we shifted the hearings to the societys dharamshalathat happens on a monthly basis, he says...
In the last one year, six cases of the Jain community came to the mediation centre, out of which three were settled. Narendra Dhakad, head of the Jain mediation center and former vice chancellor of DeviAhilya Vishwavidyalayasays, mediation gives a win-win situation, no one loses, it saves time and money...
