President Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate the country’s “largest” high court complex at Dhurwa in Ranchi, Jharkhand’s capital city.
The President started her three-day visit to Jharkhand on Wednesday. As part of her journey, she will visit at the Jharkhand districts of Ranchi and Kunti. According to the President’s Secretariat, the new Jharkhand High Court building will be inaugurated by the President on Wednesday in Ranchi.
President Murmu will attend a women’s conference hosted by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs in Khunti on May 25.
She will attend the second assembly of the Indian Establishment of Data Innovation in Namkum, Ranchi, around the same time.
According to the President’s Secretariat, Murmu will attend a civic reception hosted in her honour by the Government of Jharkhand on Thursday night at Raj Bhavan in Ranchi.
More Details About India’s Largest High Court!
A tender for the new 165-acre high court complex was issued in February 2015, and construction began in June 2015 with a 30-month deadline. After a long delay, the design would be at last introduced on Wednesday.
“In terms of area, it is larger than any of India’s high courts, including the Supreme Court (22 acres). The building cost Rs 550 crore to construct, and 500 CCTV cameras were installed. In total, 1,200 advocates will sit in two halls, each with its own 540 chambers and advocate general building,” a senior official in the Jharkhand building construction department stated.
It contains a 30,000-square-foot library, 2,000 vehicles parking, and 25 large courtrooms with air conditioning where cases will be heard. The library has over five lakh legal books for judges and other legal authorities can sit and study.
Three blocks have been constructed in the high court, totaling around 68 sections of land. The judicial block is divided into two floors. Thirteen of them have been built on the first floor, including the chief justice’s court, and twelve on the second.
Typists are housed in a separate chamber. Aside from it, barracks for 70 police personnel have been constructed.
Separately, the office of the Advocate General has been formed. There will be an advocate general’s office, four other advocates general, and a chamber for 95 government advocates.
A conference room with a capacity of 30 persons has also been built. Parking, a courtroom, an advocate hall, a registry building, and other amenities are included in the new high court facility. It has a total construction area of about 68 acres.
4,436 saplings have been planted to keep the campus green. There is also a crèche, dispensary, railway booking counter, and post office in the building.
The campus will be lit by solar panels. Solar power alone will supply roughly 60% of the region’s power supply. For this reason, a 2,000 kVA solar power plant has been installed in the parking lot.
To supplement the 2,000-kilovolt (KV) backup generator network, two 500- to 500-kilovolt (KV) generators and one 1,500-kilovolt (KV) generator have been added to provide power.
