Dr. A.S. Anand, the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, while addressing a conference on the dispute resolution for Alternative dispute resolution organized by the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, on 12.12.98, stressed the need to give the Panchayats more powers to set up family courts and conciliation centers in all the districts which will be able to dispense justice quickly and at less expenses to litigants. He maintained that the administrative institutions had failed to monitor the status, substance and pace of litigation in courts. “We have not so far succeeded in developing any effective mechanism for the pretrial settlement of legal dispute with the result that there is a heavy inflow of all sorts of civil, commercial and criminal matters into courts”, the Chief Justice said. Sharing the same concern, it is considered that and award made under the Arbitration Act 1940 should also be given the same treatment for enforcement as under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996.