President’s nod to NJAC Bill

New Delhi

President Pranab Mukherjee today gave his assent to National Judicial
Appointments Commission Bill.
The Bill was passed by Parliament in August this year and 15 States
have ratified it. The bill has provision to set up a National Judicial
Appointments Commission to replace the present Collegium system of
appointments of judges in higher judiciary.
The Commission is expected to usher in transparency in judicial
appointments in the highest courts. It will have the Chief Justice of
India as chairperson and two senior-most judges of the Supreme Court
as members, apart from the Union Law Minister and two eminent
personalities, one of them would be nominated from among the Scheduled
Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, minorities, Other Backward Classes or
women.