National Judicial Academy (India)

National Judicial Academy
(राष्ट्रीय न्यायिक अकादमी)

INSTITUTION OVERVIEW
Established	In 1993
Type	Independent Registered Society
Legal Status	The Societies Registration Act, 1860
Director	Justice KN Saikia
Chairperson	Chief Justice of India
Location	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Country	India
Campus	63acre
Funding	Government of India
Academic Program	National Judicial Education Strategy (NJES)
Purpose	Judicial Officers Training
Faculty	17
Website	www.nja.nic.in

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National Judicial Academy is an Indian government-funded training institute primarily for High Court Judges & Judicial Officers, working on deputation in the Supreme Court and the High Courts. It also provides training to the other Judicial Officers posted in districts on topic which SJA didn't deal under the Continuing Judicial Education (CJE). The institute was registered on 17 August 1993 under the of 1860.^[1] N. R. Madhava Menon was its founding director.

National skills database[]

Apart from academics, the institute, with an aim to improve the functioning of the judiciary, is setting up an online skills registry of Indian judges, with their areas of proficiency, which can be accessed by the judges using their credentials.^{[citation needed]}

State Judicial Academies[]

• Uttarakhand Judicial and Legal Academy
• National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam
• West Bengal Judicial Academy

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