Ranchi: President Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate the country’s “largest” high court campus at Dhurwa in Ranchi on Wednesday. Murmu, who will be on a three-day visit to Jharkhand, will visit Vaidyanath Dham in Deoghar, where she will perform puja and inaugurate the court campus at around 5pm in the evening. President Murmu will also pay homage to Birsa Munda and attend an event at Elbert Ekka Chowk before heading towards the court premises.
The tender for the new high court complex, sprawled over 165 acres of land, had been floated in February 2015, and construction work began that year, with a 30-month deadline in 2017. However, after a long delay, the structure would be finally inaugurated on the day.
“In terms of area, it is larger than any of the high courts of India and even the Supreme Court (22 acres). The building has been built at a cost of Rs 550 crore, 500 CCTV cameras have been installed. In all 1,200 advocates will sit in two halls with separate 540 chambers and advocate general building separately,” said a senior official in the Jharkhand building construction department.
It has a library built in 30,000 square feet along with parking arrangements for 2,000 vehicles and 25 grand air-conditioned courtrooms have been set up for hearing cases. The library has more than five lakh legal books in which judges and other judicial officers can sit and study. There is a separate chamber for typists. Apart from this, barracks have also been constructed for 70 policemen. The advocate general’s office has been created separately. There will be a chamber of the advocate general, four additional advocates general and a chamber for 95 government advocates.
Apart from this, a conference hall has also been made to seat 30 people. The total construction area of the new high court building is around 68 acres, with parking, a courtroom, an advocate hall, a registry building and other arrangements. The campus will be lit by solar energy. About 60 per cent of the power supply in the entire region will be from solar energy only. For this, a 2,000 KVA solar power plant has been set up in the parking area.
