India, July 12 -- Flagging the delay in the formation of the Arbitration Council of India, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday expressed the hope that a bill in this regard will now come up before the Parliament.

Speaking at the Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation silver jubilee event, CJI Kant stressed that India is moving towards treating Alternative Dispute Redressal (ADR) not as a lesser substitute for justice but as one of its ordinary pathways.

He said the Arbitration Council of India was created on the statute book by the 2019 amendment to grade institutions and accredit arbitrators.

"Six years later, it has still not been constituted. A further Draft Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, circulated ...