Insurance Scheme For Advocates, Increase In Fees For Central Government Counsel: Important Announcements By Union Law Minister Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal made these announcements during the National Conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad.

Home / News Insurance Scheme For Advocates, Increase In Fees For Central Government Counsel: Important Announcements By Union Law Minister Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal made these announcements during the National Conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad. ByVerdictum News Desk|26 Dec 2025 7:47 PM Union Minister of Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, has announced today that the Centre is coming out with an Insurance Scheme for Advocates, which will include Medical Insurance and accident coverage. He has also announced that the fees of panel counsel for the Central Government and its institutions will be increased and that the delay in receiving fees will be addressed. The Minister was speaking at the inaugural session of the 17th National Conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad at Balotra, Rajasthan. The announcement was made towards the end of his address. “Your fees will be increased. Timely payment is not being made. We are resolving that issue also”, he said to a large gathering of lawyers from across the country. “There are many who say, we fought the case, but this Coal India (as an example) is not making payment. Isn’t this an issue?”, he asked the audience, laughing. The audience agreed. “We are resolving that issue also”, he said. Announcing the Insurance Scheme for Advocates, the Minister said, “We are bringing an insurance scheme for you. Both medical insurance and group insurance. Accident will also be covered”. “Advocates’ Protection Act is pending before the Law Commission. The rest of the issues will also be resolved”, he assured the gathering of lawyers. At the beginning of his speech, the Law Minister spoke about the latest amendment to the Indian Succession Act and said, “It was said in the Parliament that we brought in legislation in a hurry. That is not the case. PM Modi has been saying from the time he became the PM, that any law which is not relevant, as a part of the ‘ease of living’ initiative, we had done away with 562 such laws which existed, though it was not necessary… We have now done away with 71 more such laws”. “When Babasaheb Ambedkar was asked what is the soul of the Constitution; he said that it is Article 32. Today, we can say that what Babasaheb had said then has been proven to be true. Article 32 functions like the soul of the Constitution to protect the rights of the citizens, and in states, it is Article 226”, he said. He said that if the pillars of the Constitution- liberty, equality and fraternity are safe, we all will be safe and the nation will progress. He said that the 21st century belongs to Asia and India will lead Asia in this century. During the same event, Justice Vijay Bishnoi of the Supreme Court had spoken against linguistic regionalism, saying that the same is dangerous for the Nation and that Lawyers should contribute towards ending such tendencies. (read report) Earlier, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had said that anyone seeking the enforcement of fundamental rights through Courts should be required to first show compliance with fundamental duties provided in the Constitution of India. (read report) Arjun Ram Meghwal Verdictum News Desk Next Story Linguistic Regionalism Is Dangerous For Nation, Lawyers Should Resist: Justice Vijay Bishnoi The Supreme Court Judge was speaking on the subject of social harmony and 75 years of the Constitution of India. ByVerdictum News Desk|26 Dec 2025 6:47 PM Justice Vijay Bishnoi of the Supreme Court has spoken against linguistic regionalism saying that the same is dangerous for the Nation and that Lawyers should contribute towards ending such tendencies. Justice Bishnoi was speaking at the 17th National Conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad at Balotra, Rajasthan. While speaking about regionalism, Justice Bishnoi said, “If you say in Rajasthan that only Rajasthanis will stay here, or that only Marathas will stay in Maharashtra or that only Malayalis will stay in Kerala, that is a very dangerous concept. We should be careful about it. Lawyers’ role should be to contribute towards ending any such attempts.” He then said, “Today, there are many enemies of the nation inside the nation, apart from external enemies. It is their efforts to disturb social harmony inside the country. Therefore, we should fight together.” He said that we should ponder whether we have achieved social harmony even after 75 years of the Constitution of India. He quoted Dr. Ambedkar from the constituent assembly, “We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life. These principles of liberty, equality and fraternity are not to be treated as separate items in a trinity. They form a union of trinity in the sense that to divorce one from the other is to defeat the very purpose of democracy. Liberty cannot be divorced from equality, equality cannot be divorced from liberty. Nor can liberty and equality be divorced from fraternity. Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative. Without fraternity, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative. Without fraternity, liberty and equality could not become a natural course of things”. Justice Bishnoi said, “It was rightly said that social harmony cannot be achieved through speeches. Repeated efforts are required for the same. There is an attempt to disturb social harmony in many parts of the country to weaken the country.” “It is the duty of the advocates who have gathered here from different parts of the country to consider how these designs to disturb social harmony and weaken the country can be stopped. It should be deliberated here as to how such attempts to disturb social and communal harmony should be tackled”, Justice Bishnoi said. “Tushar Mehta rightly said that you talk about fundamental rights, but do we follow the duties prescribed in the Constitution! It is a little extreme to say that fundamental rights will be enforceable only when one says that one has discharged fundamental duties, but one should be able to say that he has done something towards duties enshrined in the Constitution”, the Judge said, referring to the suggestion made by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta in the same event. Tushar Mehta has said during his speech that anyone seeking the enforcement of fundamental rights through Courts should be required to first show compliance with fundamental duties provided in the Constitution of India. (read report) Apart from Mehta, Dr Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati of the Rajasthan High Court and Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal also spoke during the session. 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