Panjim, Dec. 26 -- Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday attended a 'Mediation Awareness' walkathon organised by the Bar Council of India.

During the event, CJI Surya Kant participated in the cleanliness drive and planted a sapling.

The CJI emphasised the need to raise awareness of mediation as an alternative to trial, highlighting its growing influence in the country.

"The Bar Council of India has organised this program...Advocates, judges and law students are invited here from around the country. Mediation is not a law that you can enforce. It is something a person voluntarily accepts. Until people are made aware of this, they will not accept it. In recent years, our success rate of mediation has increased more than 30 pe...