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Fast track alimony payment: Centre
Context
Fast tracking of alimony process
What has happened?
Expressing concern over delay in disbursing money awarded as maintenance to women by courts, the Centre has asked the High Courts to set up a mechanism to fast-track the process
What the law minister has said?
- All the stakeholders, the Government of India, the judiciary, legal services authorities and State governments need to take collective responsibility for ensuring that institutional mechanisms, such as the proposed committee comprising district judge and superintendent of police, work seamlessly to provide justice to women,” Mr. Prasad said in his letter
- The Law Minister asked High Courts to advise district courts to monitor timely disbursal of maintenance and speedy execution of warrants awarded by the court
Panels set up
Several High Courts have set up committees to now monitor the process of disbursal of maintenance to women
