Court & Judiciary
The Legal administration i.e. Judiciary System at Rourkela is located as per the sub – divisional head quarter of Panposh. Accordingly, the Court of Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate has been established at Rourkela. Besides this, there are also the court of Additional District Judicial Magistrate at Rourkela because of its importance as a big town in the District of Sundargarh . Rourkela has also got a Family court which is one of its kind among the three family courts in the State of Odisha.
Since February 2007 different courts at Rourkela are functioning at new court building complex located near the Ring-road junction of Rourkela Main road ( Adjacent to Udit Nagar ) .There are space for pleaders as well as other allied persons like vendors , typists etc. for the smooth functioning of various judicial work.
The details of courts at new court building complex near ring road over bridge are as follows.
- Family Court ( to decide matters realted to marriage and allied family maters)
- Additional District Session Judge Court
- Adhoc Additional District Judge Court (Fast track)
- Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court
- Civil Judge ( Sr. Division )
- Civil Judge ( Jr. Division )
- Sub Divisional District Magistrate Court
- Judicial Magistrate ( Fast-track Court )
Apart from the above, the Executive Magistrate Court for Rourkela is situated at the Old Court Building , at Udit nagar within Sub – Collectorate Compound. Since 2010 the District Consumer Redressal Forum,Rourkela is also functioning from here.
There are also number of Notaries appointed by the Government for various allied judicial work.
The list of various courts with office phone number is as below.
Position Title | Phone No. |
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Additional District Judge | 0661 – 2501199 |
Additional Chief Judicial Majistrate | 0661 – 2500041 |
Civil Judge ( Sr. Division) | 0661 – 2506828 |
Civil Judge ( Jr. Division) | 0661 – 2505522 |
Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate | 0661 – 2512122 |
Fast Track Court | 0661 – 2513909 |
Family Court | 0661 – 2501602 |
The Office of Bar Association Rourkela is having more than 900 members, situated at the new court building. The said association for the members as well as practicing lawyers has been working at Rourkela since 1952.
Rourkela Bar Association functionaries elected for the year 2011 is as below.
Position Title | Name |
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President | Ramesh Bal |
Vice President | Rajeswari Nanda |
Secretary | Surendra Majhi |
Jt. Secretary | Raj Kishore Pradhan |
Tressurer | Sunil Kumar Sharma |