Permanent Lok Adalat

The other type of Lok Adalat is the Permanent Lok Adalat, organized under Section 22-B of The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. Permanent Lok Adalats have been set up as permanent bodies with a Chairman and two members for providing compulsory pre-litigative mechanism for conciliation and settlement of cases relating to Public Utility Services like transport, postal, telegraph etc. Here, even if the parties fail to reach to a settlement, the Permanent Lok Adalat gets jurisdiction to decide the dispute, provided, the dispute does not relate to any offence. Further, the Award of the Permanent Lok Adalat is final and binding on all the parties. The jurisdiction of the Permanent Lok Adalats is upto Rs. One Crore. Here if the parties fail to reach to a settlement, the Permanent Lok Adalat has the jurisdiction to decide the case. The award of the Permanent Lok Adalat is final and binding upon the parties. The Lok Adalat may conduct the proceedings in such a manner as it considers appropriate, taking into account the circumstances of the case, wishes of the parties like requests to hear oral statements, speedy settlement of dispute etc.

DISPOSAL IN PERMANENT LOK ADALATS

(w.e.f. 2012 to 2019 June)

No. of PLAs establishedNo.  of PLAs functioning No. of cases registered No. of cases disposed of
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SL.NoName Of the PLAName Of the Chairperson
1BalangirDhirendra Kumar Pattanaik
2BalasoreAjay Kumar Mohanty
3BhadrakGovinda Chandra Panigrahi
4CuttackVacant
5DhenkanalBiranchi Kumar Rath
6Ganjam at BerhampurSaroj Kumar Paty
7JajpurAmiya Kumar Sahoo
8JharsugudaIshan Kumar Das
9KalahandiSushil Kumar Ray
10KeonjharRamanath Panda
11KoraputNarendra Kumar Samal
12Khurda at BhubaneswarSuryamani Mohapatra
13MayurbhanjRanjan Kumar Panda
14PhulbaniSantosh Kumar Naik
15PuriPrakash Chandra Mohapatra
16RayagadaHimansu Sekhar Brahma
17SambalpurVacant
18SundargarhKailash Chandra Swain