 bill no  232 of 2016 the gauhati high court (establishment of a permanent bench at silchar) bill, 2016 by ms sushmita dev, mp a billto provide for the establishment of a permanent bench of the gauhati high court at silcharbe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—short title 1  this act may be called the gauhati high court (establishment of a permanent bench at silchar) act, 2016establishment of a permanent bench of gauhati high court at silchar statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthe gauhati high court for the states of assam, nagaland, mizoram and arunachal pradesh is located at gauhati out of the total submitted cases in gauhati high court, approx forty to forty-five cases belong to the districts of barak valley, namely, cachar, karimganj, hailakandi and dima hasaothe distance between these districts of barak valley and gauhati is a few hundred kilometres and the road and rail often remain interrupted during heavy monsoon due to landslides, etc the districts of the barak valley have a population of approximately forty lakh people have to travel long distance causing them immense inconvenience in order to reach the high court at gauhati to pursue their cases this is a great financial strain for the residents of the valley, most of whom belong to economically weaker families for long, there has been a demand from the persons living in the region that a bench of the high court be set up at silchar in cachar district which is very important town in the state of assamthe silchar town is developing as a center of trade and business it has hundreds of tea gardens and the presence of central public sector undertakings like the oil and natural gas corporation limited and the hindustan paper corporation limited therefore, establishment of a permanent bench at silchar in cachar district will help mitigate the problems of the persons residing in the barak valley regionhence this billnew delhi;sushmita devjuly 25, 2016———— a billto provide for the establishment of a permanent bench of the gauhati high court at silchar————(ms sushmita dev, mp)gmgipmrnd—2576l(s3)—04-10-2016