New Delhi: The government has been receiving representations from "diverse sources" on lack of transparency, objectivity, and social diversity in the collegium system of appointment of Supreme Court and high court judges with the request to improve the mechanism, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
In a written reply, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju also said the government has sent suggestions for supplementing the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for the appointment of judges to the high courts and Supreme Court. The moP is a document that guides the appointment and transfer of judges in the higher judiciary.
