9.2. Affordable Justice Delivery

Recently. the Supreme Court introduced ‘Middle Income Group Scheme’ to provide affordable legal services where fees would be charged as per the schedule attached to the scheme. The scheme will be administered through a society named ‘Supreme Court Middle Income Group (MIG) Legal Aid Society’ registered for this purpose. The Patron-in-Chief of the society is Chief Justice of India and the Attorney General is its ex-officio Vice President. Its beneficiaries will be litigants in the SC whose gross income is less than Rs. 60,000 per month or Rs. 7.5 lakh per annum.