 bill no lviii of 2006 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2006 a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1) this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2006short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force with immediate effect52 in article 145 of the constitution,—amendment of article 145(i) in clause (1), after sub-clause (a), the following sub-clauses shall be inserted,namely:—"(aa) rules as to the fixation of time limit for oral arguments in various categories of cases coming before it for oral arguments keeping in view the nature and facts of the cases;""(aaa) rules providing for written arguments to supplement the oral arguments, as and when desired, in various categories of cases coming before it for oral arguments keeping in view the nature and facts of the cases'' (ii) after clause (1), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—5"(1a) the time-limit fixed by the supreme court by rules for oral arguments shall not be extended except in exceptional circumstance for reasons to be recorded in writing by the chief justice of india"3 in article 227 of the constitution,—amendment of article 22710(i) in clause (2), after sub-clause (b), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:—"(bb) fix the time limit for oral arguments in various categories of cases coming before it and in various tribunals/district courts under its jurisdiction for oral arguments keeping in view the nature and facts of the cases;"15"(bbb) permit written arguments to supplement the oral arguments in various categories of cases coming before it and in various tribunals/district courts under its jurisdiction for oral arguments keeping in view the nature and facts of the cases as and when desired"(ii) after clause (2), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—20"(2a) the time-limit fixed by the high court for oral arguments shall not be extended except in exceptional circumstance for reasons to be recorded in writing by the chief justice of high court" statement  of  objects  and  reasonsthere is a popular saying in our country that "god please save us from the affairs of court, hospital and police'' why the people are afraid of with the affairs of the courts when the judiciary of our country is recognized and respected throughout the world for its independence and effectiveness? no other judicial system in the world is as independent as is ours along with this well respected judiciary, there are a few facts which needs to be looked at, ie, around forty thousand cases are pending in the supreme court, more than forty lakh cases are pending in twenty-one high courts and over 25 crore cases are pending in subordinate courts although there are many reasons of this pendency but one of the foremost reasons is the unlimited and unending oral arguments in the courts no doubt, the oral arguments are important aspect of legal system the world over but in our country, it has assumed alarming proportions many a time, these arguments are irrelevant and  unnecessary generally, the tool of oral arguments is used to buy time or rather waste the time of the otherwise overburdened courts lawyers go on quoting various judgments during oral arguments that may not be relevant to the given case, which ultimately leads to the harassment of the other party in view of the prolong hearing at times, the judges can object to lengthy and irrelevant oral arguments but generally judges do not object to such arguments due to lack of time limit for a particular casethere has to be a time limit on oral arguments in each case which can be fixed by the courts depending upon the nature and facts of the case in many countries, there are provisions for limiting the oral arguments in court casesthe importance of the issue was considered  in our draft constitution, and a provision was proposed for time limit on oral arguments, but somehow that  didn't find its place in the constitution the need to curtail the argument time has been expressed time and again if a time limit is fixed by courts it will save a lot of time of courts and will provide an expeditious and inexpensive justice to the people at largethe bill seeks to achieve the above objectiveskalraj  mishra————abillfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri kalraj mishra, mp)mgipmrnd—2586rs(s4)—25-08-2006