ALL-INDIA JUDICIAL SERVICE

About:

• All-India Judicial Service (AJIS) is a proposed judicial service in India.
  
  
• Background:
  • Original constitution didn’t provide for the creation of an AIJS.
    
    
  • After the Swaran Singh Committee’s recommendations in 1976, Article 312 was modified by the 42^nd constitution (amendment) act in 1977 to provide for an AIJS.
    
    
  • Law commission in its 116^th report suggested the Direct recruitment of judges from the entry level onwards would be through an open competition and this would be handled by an independent and impartial agency.
    
    
  
  
  
• Arguments for its creation:
  • Our constitution provides for its creation. Law Commission of India (LCI) in its various reports (14^th, 77^th and 116^th) and Supreme Court (in two of its judgments in 1991 and 1993) have recommended its creation.
    
    
  • If designed with the right incentives of pay, promotion and career progression, it could potentially become an attractive employment avenue for bright young law graduates.
    
    
  • Existing system has led to shortage of judges as today the subordinate judiciary depends entirely on state recruitment.
    
    
  • Judicial service will make the judiciary more accountable, more professional, and arguably, also more equitable.
    
    
  • In France, the judiciary is operated by a career judicial service