London, July 5: Indian government has taken a series of measures to improve the quality of legal education in the country to make it dynamic, Law Minister H R Bhardwaj has said.

"We feel that a lot of improvement needs to be done in the legal education to make it dynamic," Bhardwaj told a meet on UK-India Business Relationship here on Friday night. He said till 1985 there was only one law school in Bangalore. But now Government has set up 23 new law schools in an effort to improve the quality of legal education. "Almost in every state there is one National Law School and they are producing lawyers in large numbers," he said at the conference organised by the Indo-European Business Forum at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Besides, the central government had invested Rs 1000 crore for e-governance facilities in judiciary and in the next two years every court will have such facilities.

In an effort to deal with pending cases, the Minister said "mediation centres" have been set up to resolve disputes in every High courts. "Through mediation and conciliation, we are trying to resolve large number of cases."

Describing India as a land of opportunities, Bhardwaj said investors in India got good returns.

Citing an example of the automobile sector which had seen a proliferation, Bhardwaj said "the automobile sector has shown that any thing can be sold in India in a jiffy."

Lord Gordsmith, QC, ex-UK Attorney-General, said the rule of law and independence of judiciary in India is unparalleled and "strongly applauded Indian legal profession and judges."

In an obvious reference to Tata's takeover of Chorus and Jaguar and Land Rovers, Goldsmith said "some of the Indian names have become house hold names in the British society." At the same time, he pointed out that "dispute resolution in India needs significant improvement."