Chief Justice of India hoped that the new building for the Telangana High Court, for which he laid the foundation stone at Rajendra Nagar on Wednesday, would not suffer from issues like inadequate wash rooms for women and lack of proper parking facilities for the differently-abled.
Addressing the gathering after unveiling the plaque, the CJI said that public spaces often reflect pre-existing social inequalities in the society, and infrastructure plays a significant role in main-streaming communities and groups in the society.
Justice Chandrachud said, “Our infrastructure sometimes reflects certain signs of exclusion like lack of ramps for differently-abled people, special rooms for lactating mothers and tactile parks for the visually-challenged. Such lack of facilities makes these people feel that courts are not meant for them. These are vestiges of a patriarchal system.”
