Bengaluru, May 4 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday underscored the transformative potential of mediation in providing a speedier and more inclusive justice delivery system, and said that mediation was a key instrument to realise the vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047. "That is why the legislature enacted a comprehensive law in the form of Mediation Act 2023. The legislation was reflective of the traditional alternate dispute redressal systems such as panchayats that had worked so well in India," Murmu said while she was delivering the keynote address at the first National Mediation Conference that also marked the launch of the Mediation Association of India. Just as panchayats offered an alternate dispute resolution system, mediation pro...