50 More Judges to Attend Training in India

The Ministry of Law has approved the participation of 50 judicial officers from subordinate courts in a training program at the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal and a State Judicial Academy in India. The training will take place from February 10 to February 20.

According to a recent notification from the Ministry’s Law and Justice Division, this approval follows recommendations from the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Judges at various levels, including Assistant Judges, Senior Assistant Judges, Joint District and Sessions Judges, Additional District and Sessions Judges, and District and Sessions Judges, have been nominated for the training.

The notification states that the Indian government will bear all expenses for the training, with no financial obligation on the part of the Bangladesh government.

This initiative is part of an agreement signed in April 2017 during former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India. The memorandum of understanding between Bangladesh's Supreme Court and India’s National Judicial Academy aims to enhance the skills and capacity of Bangladeshi judicial officials.

Following the agreement, then-Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha remarked in July 2017 about the importance of training for judges, noting that every state in India has a judicial training institute, along with the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal. He mentioned the agreement to train 1,500 to 1,600 Bangladeshi judges.

The first batch of judicial officers attended training in India from October 10 to October 24, 2017. Since then, many judges have undergone training under this agreement.