This Research paper will bring insight to the significance of mediation and why the mediation act 2023 was enacted to curb the pendency in courts in INDIA. This paper will give brief explanation about the history of mediation and to the various modes of alternative disputes resolution while focusing on Mediation process including its online aspects. It will bring a brief comparison with mediation to the negotiation, arbitration, conciliation, litigation and lok- adalat. It also makes a comparison of mediation in India with other countries. Its benefit and demerit in litigation. As every enactment has certain loopholes, this paper gives suggestion for the upliftment of this act and fulfilling the need of the public policy of accessing justice to all.
