Vacant posts of judges to be filled soon: Prasad

Vacant posts of judges in the country will be filled shortly and the process for the same has already started, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here today.
Following his meeting with a delegation of advocates here, Prasad told reporters that vacancies in judges' posts would soon be filled.
Prasad, also the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said that he had given instructions for improvements to be introduced in the telecom services. He also hinted that post offices were being readied to enter banking services.
"For promoting telecom services in the rural areas, optical fibre cables are being laid," Prasad told reporters here.

Referring to the Narendra Modi government's plan to clean up the Ganga, Prasad said that attention would also be devoted to the health of the Yamuna river.
Prasad also met Srivatsa Goswami, an authority of Vraj culture and a Mahant of Radha Raman temple in Vrindaban, on Saturday evening.
The minister said that the NDA government would make every effort to protect Vraj culture and any development at its cost would be unacceptable.