The Supreme Court of India has launched SAMADHAN SAMAROH 2026 — a nationwide consent-based resolution drive whose name roughly translates as a 'festival of resolution'. It culminates in a special Lok Adalat at the Court itself from August 21 to 23, open to physical and virtual participation.
Lok Adalats — people's courts that record consensual settlements with the force of a decree — have long cleared enormous volumes in India's lower courts. Bringing the format to the apex court, with state legal services authorities campaigning from Puducherry to Chhattisgarh, elevates settlement from procedural option to national cause.
For a judiciary carrying the world's largest backlog, the message to the bar and to litigants is the one APMC exists to spread: an amicable outcome is not the second-best result. It is the point.
