Statute shouldn't be altered: Kashyap

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, SEPT. 28. The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution, formed in February 2000, is likely to accomplish the task by next month, without seeking any time extension, its member and former Secretary-General of Parliament, Dr. Subash C. Kashyap, told presspersons here today.

The Commission was working on 10 identified areas, analysing their performance and ability to meet the expectations of the framers of the Constitution and the populace.

Clarifying that the Constitution should not be and could be altered, he said the Commission's responsibility was to review its functioning alone. ``It is political will, not Constitutional amendments, which will make all the difference.''

A total of 21 consultation papers were being circulated to different sections in order to elicit their response, based on which a report would be prepared and placed before the Commission for deliberations.

In this connection, a three-day conference involving participants drawn from the higher judiciary, university, all- India services, service groups and public life, is to be conducted here on October 5, 6 and 7.

Being the only such conference arranged in the south under the aegis of the Commission, representatives from all four southern States have been invited for discussion, according to Mr. R.V. Dhanapalan, organising committee chairman.

Copies of a set of questionnaire received from the Commission itself will be circulated in an effort to muster opinion from various strata of society.

The outcome of the conference will be forwarded to the Commission in a report, which will be reviewed before being incorporated in the Commission's final recommendations.

The retired Supreme Court judge, Mr. Justice S. Natarajan, will inaugurate the conference, while Dr. Kashyap will deliver the key-note address.

Among the luminaries scheduled to address the conference are the former Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, Mr. P.R. Gokulakrishnan, and the former Judges of the Madras High Court Mr. Justice G. Ramanujam, Mr. Justice N. Krishnasamy Reddiar, Mr. Justice P. Bhaskaran and Mr. Justice T.N. Singaravelu.

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