Ministry of Law and Justice Lok Sabha Starred Question No 59 Answered
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO 59 ANSWERED ON 24.02.2011 JUSTICE TO POOR 59 . Singh Alias Pappu Singh Shri Uday Will the Minister LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state:- of (a) Whether the Delhi High Court has recently observed that the poor are not getting timely justice in higher courts since these courts are mainly busy with cases involving persons with money or power; (b) if so, the facts regarding pending cases in High Courts and the Supreme Court; and (c) the steps taken by the Government to ensure equality in delivery of justice in the courts? ANSWER MINISTER OF LAW AND JUSTICE (DR. M. VEERAPPA MOHY) (a) to (c): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (c) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 59 (a): Yes, Madam. Recently, High Court of Delhi has delivered a judgement dated 02.12.2010 in `Rani Vs. State` wherein such like observation have been made. (b): As per the available information, a statement indicating pendency of cases in High Courts and the Supreme Court is annexed. (c): Equality of justice as enshrined under Article 14 of the Constitution of India is followed in letter and spirit. The Government is taking various initiatives to improve justice delivery system in the country. These are as under: 1. The Government has `in principle` approved setting up of National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms. The National Mission would help implementing the two major goals of the Vision Document 2009, viz: (i) increasing access by reducing delays and arrears in the system (ii) enhancing accountability at all levels through structural changes and setting performance standards and facilitating enhancement of capacities for achieving such performance standards. 2. With the objective of improving justice delivery, Thirteenth Finance Commission has recommended a grant of Rs. 5000 crore to be utilized over a period of five years up to 2010- 2015. This grant is aimed at providing support to improve judicial outcomes, and is allocated for the initiatives such as (i) Increasing the number of court working hours using the existing infrastructure by holding morning / evening / shift courts; (ii) Enhancing support to Lok Adalats to reduce the pressure on regular courts; (iii) Providing additional funds to State Legal Services Authorities to enable them to enhance legal aid to the marginalized and empower them to access justice; (iv) Promoting the Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism to resolve part of the disputes outside the court system;(v) Enhancing capacity of judicial officers and public prosecutors through training programmes; (vi) Supporting creation or strengthening of a judicial academy in each State to facilitate such training; (vii) Creation of the post of Court Managers in every judicial district and High Courts to assist the judiciary in their administrative functions and (viii) Maintenance of heritage court buildings. 3. The Government is implementing a central sector scheme for computerization of the District and Subordinate Courts (e-Courts project) in the country and for upgradation of the ICT infrastructure of the Supreme Court and the High Courts, at a cost of Rs. 935 crore for the first phase which will connect 14,229 courts in the country including video conferencing facilities. In the subsequent phase, digitization, library management, e-filing and establishment of data warehouse are expected to take place. The Project output would be beneficial to both improving court process and rendering citizen centric services. Automation of case flow would cover case scrutiny, registration, court proceedings and electronic monitoring of ail court-wise case pendency and performance assessment of Judges. In terms of citizen centric services, online availability of case status, copies of orders and judgments, cause list and eventually e- filing of cases will be available. This project will also achieve one of the important goals of the Vision Document 2009, namely, the creation of National Arrears Grid, with the last mile connectivity up to Taluqa courts. The complete coverage of the 14,249 courts in terms of hardware and software will be achieved by March 2014 and the largest number of courts (12,000) will be covered by March 2012. Re-engineering of the process in the courts is the ultimate aim for speeding justice delivery and this activity is also to start this year. 4. Enactment of the Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008 which provides for establishment of Gram Nyayalayas to improve access to justice to common man. Under the scheme, the Government provides non recurring grant for creation of infrastructure and also recurring grant on annual basis. Rs. 20.92 crore have been provided to the States so far under this scheme. 5. A Centrally Sponsored Scheme for development of infrastructure facilities for the judiciary is being implemented since 1993-94 under which central assistance for construction of court buildings and residential quarters for judicial officers is released to augment the resources of the State Governments. The central grant is released with a rider that the State Governments would contribute at least the matching share. An amount of Rs. 412 crore has been released to the State Governments during the last three years. Central Grant for construction of High Court buildings is considered by the Planning Commission on 30:70 basisunder Additional Central Assistance scheme. 6. For legal empowerment of the marginalized people in India an externally aided project `Access to Justice for Marginalized People in India` is being implemented, in the selected 07 States, with the support of UNDP. 8/11/2015 tmp300.htm LOK SABHA ANNEXURE STARRED QUESTION NO. 59 DATED 24022011 Supreme Court of India H ome Causelists Case Status Daily Orders Judgements Indian Courts Calender MONTHLY PENDING CASES SUPREME COURT OF INDIA THE MONTHLY STATEMENT OF PENDING CASES FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 2011 Pending from Registered Disposed of Disposed of Pending the Previous during the during the Month month month matters at the pertaining to end of Previous the months, but month updated this month D A+B A B C (C+D) Admission 32565 8230 7977 39 32779 Matters Regular 21997 895 498 22386 Hearing Matters Total 54562 9125 47 55165 8475 • Out of the 55165 pending matters .as on 31/01/2011, if connected matters are excluded, the pendency is only 32694 matters as on 31/01/2011. • Out of the 55165 pending matters as on 31/01/2011, 19726 matters are upto one year old and thus arrears (i.e. cases pending more than a year) are only of 35439 matters as on 31/01/2011. Disclaimer Designed & Developed by NIC Computer Cell Supreme Court of India, New Ddhi Best viewed In IE 6.0 or Firafox 2.0 or higher on 1280x1024 pixels resolution http://164.100.47.132/Annexture_New/lsq15/7/as59.htm 1/3 8/11/2015 tmp300.htm COURT NEWS JULY SEPTEMBER 2010 B) HIGH COURTS (FROM 01042010 TO 3006 2010) s. NAME OF Civil Cases Criminal Cases Total No HIGH Opening, Institution Disposal Pendency Opening, Institution Disposal Pendency Pendency Balance Irom from ai the Balance from from auheend of Civil COURT as on 0104 0104 end of as on 0104 0104 of 30 and 0104 10 TO I0 to 30 0104 10 to 10 to 0610 Criminal 10 3006 3006 0610 10 3006 3006 Cases 10 10 10 10 all the end of 3006 10 1 Allahabad 662670 38239 31920 668989 280192 30071 19320 300943 969932 2 Andhra 166148 11923 9904 168167 26426 3671 4264 25833 194000 Pradesh 3 Bombay 298047 27128 25356 299819 43253 6702 5297 44658 344477 4 Calcatta 274874 16417 10991 2804Q0 47895 7377 5892 49180 329580 5 Chattisgarh 40719 2737 3066 40390 17088 1723 2036 16775 57165 6 Delhi 49210 6644 6140 49714 11439 3245 2651 12093 61807 7 Gujarat 75179 5560 10774 89985 24815 4997 4427 25385 95350 8 Gauhati 50625 5811 5294 51142 8923 2600 2548 8974 60116 9 Himachal 45144 4851 6861 43134 6499 683 734 6448 49582 Pradesh 10 Jammu & 56681 7804 3970 50515 2496 777 268 3405 63520 Kashmir 11 Jharkhand 30302 2366 1905 30763 26144 4874 4486 25532 66215 12 Karnataka 165301 31510 19177 177634 19536 4615 4084 20067 197701 13 Kerala 87253 3451 2022 88682 27979 1595 974 28600 117282 14 Madhya 138958 18337 13679 143616 62532 8849 6614 65767 203383 Pradesh I5 Madras 399176 43126 35214 407088 38282 16973 14165 41090 448178 16 Orissa 235494 13466 10723 238237 27999 10302 9376 28925 2671B2 17 Patna 62437 6615* 8091 80961 47676 13182 46784 127745 12270** 18 Punjab & 192412 13498 12118 183782 47387 11041 9391 49037 242829 Haryana 19 Rajasthan 205863 13198 7337 211722 S8923 3896 6605 6124 272936 20 Sikkim 70 23 33 60 I9 8 8 19 79 21 U 12466 1761 2057 12173 7071 1172 1804 6439 18612 ttarakhand TOTAL 3269132 274463 226832 3316963 141434 143441 118107 866768 4183731 Above statement is compiled on the basis of figures received from the High Courts * 130 civil cases w«re restored during thta quarter ** 87 criminal ca«» w«re http://164.100.47.132/Annexture_New/lsq15/7/as59.htm 2/3 8/11/2015 tmp300.htm restored during this quarter http://164.100.47.132/Annexture_New/lsq15/7/as59.htm 3/3 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 517 ANSWERED ON 24.02.2011 HIGH COURT BENCHES 517 . Sampath Shri Anirudhan Will the Minister LAW AND JUSTICE be pleased to state:- of (a) whether the Government has received any proposal from any State Government for the establishment of new High Court Benches in their respective States; (b) if so, the details thereof; (c) the action taken by the Government in this regard; and (d) the current status of the same? ANSWER MINISTER OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Dr.