The Draft Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill 2024, despite being pending for more than two years since its drafting, includes a provision in Section 9A for making provision for emergency arbitrators through arbitral institutions in the same way that orders can be made under Section 17(2).

The PPO framework has been extensively discussed by practitioners and scholars, attracting criticism ranging from inadequate opportunity to be heard, to enforcement problems arising from the provisional nature of these orders.

The amendment bill is a noteworthy step toward institutionalizing emergency arbitration in India.

[Akash and Simone are students at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.] Arbitration as a form of dispute resolution is in itself...