Representations on lack of transparency, objectivity in collegium system received: Rijiju in RS

New Delhi:  The government has been receiving representations from “diverse sources” on lack of transparency, objectivity and social diversity in the collegium system of appointment of Supreme Court and high court judges with the request to improve the mechanism, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
In a written reply, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju also said the government has sent suggestions for supplementing the Memorandum of Procedure for appointment of judges to the high courts and Supreme Court.
MoP is a document which guides the appointment and transfer of judges in the higher judiciary.
He recalled that in a bid to make the collegium system of appointments of judges “more broad-based, transparent, accountable and bringing objectivity in the system”, the government brought into force the Constitution (Ninety-Ninth Amendment) Act, 2014 and the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014 on April 13, 2015.
However, both the Acts were challenged in the Supreme Court which eventually declared both the laws as unconstitutional and void on October 16, 2015.
The collegium system, as existing prior to the enforcement of the Constitution (Ninety-Ninth Amendment) Act, 2014, was declared to be operative.