1092 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
all cases which come to them must have the records printed, the High Court has to follow that rule. Probably the Supreme Court hereafter may follow a different rule, we cannot say.
With regard to the lower judiciary, there is certainly much room for improvement. I quite agree that our judicial stations so to say, the towns where the Sub-Judges sit are sometimes very far away from the villages, and the villagers have to incur large expenses for travelling from their villages to the places where they are situated. I have sometimes thought whether it would not be desirable for our Sub-Judges or some others subordinate to the Sub-Judges to go on what we may call circuit. You can have a circuit of six or seven in the villages which this man can visit from week to week, and hear the cases right in the villages. That, I think, is a feasible thing. I must say that that is a matter which is entirely within the power of the Provincial Governments. It is they who can reorganise the judiciary in terms of my suggestion if they think that that is a suggestion worth accepting.
With regard to the question of court fees, that again is a matter which is entirely within the purview of the Provincial Governments. If the Provincial Governments think that court fees are so fixed that they are beyond the capacity of the litigants, it is for them to lower the court fees and give relief to the litigant public in that manner. With regard to the question of legal aid, there is no doubt that there is a necessity for doing something in that behalf. As every one knows, the British Parliament has recently passed an Act making it a national responsibility to provide aid to a litigant who is unable to find money for his litigation. However valuable that step might be it seems to me that having regard to the economic capacity of the people of our country, it would be perhaps impossible to place such a burden upon the national revenues of the country. There is no doubt that some other method might, be found whereby some amount of partial relief may be given to people who are indigenous and who. have important questions of law to be settled.
Something was said with regard to the Law Revision committee. It seems to me that there is a certain amount of