Cases pending (5-10 years) (sub. court)

Rankings Methodology

Large and mid-sized states Andhra Pradesh Bihar Chhattisgarh Gujarat Haryana Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Telangana Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal

Small states Arunachal Pradesh Goa Himachal Pradesh Meghalaya Mizoram Sikkim Tripura

Union Territories Andaman & Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra & Nagar Haveli Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Daman & Diu Delhi Jammu & Kashmir Ladakh Lakshadweep Puducherry

Unranked states Assam Manipur Nagaland

Judiciary

Budgets Per capita spend on judiciary

Human Resources Population per High Court judge Population per sub. court judge High Court judge vacancy Sub. court judge vacancy High Court staff vacancy

Diversity Women judges (High Court) Women judges (sub. court) SC judges, actual to reserved (sub. court) ST judges, actual to reserved (sub. court) OBC judges, actual to reserved (sub. court)

Infrastructure Courthall shortfall

Workload Cases pending (5-10 years) (sub. court) Cases pending (10+ years) (sub. court) Average High Court pendency Average sub. court pendency Case clearance rate (High Court) Case clearance rate (sub. court) Cases pending (5-10 years) (High Court) Cases pending (10+ years) (High Court)

Trends Cases pending (per High Court judge), trends Cases pending (per sub. court judge), trends Total cases pending (High Court), trends Total cases pending (sub. court), trends Judge vacancy (High Court), trends Judge vacancy (sub. court), trends Case clearance rate (High Court), trends Case clearance rate (sub. court), trends Difference in spend: judiciary vs state, trends

State Ranking

State Indicator Data

State Indicator Raw Data

Methodology

This page shows data for all IJR indicators, organized by pillar and theme. The visualisation below shows how the cluster of 18 large and mid-sized states fare on the chosen indicator, across all 3 IJRs. States ranked 1-6 for the indicator are shown in blue, those ranked 7-12 in light green and those ranked 13-18 in light brown. The table shows the indicator value as well as the raw data used to calculate it. Use the sort feature to sort any column in ascending or descending order. Use the filter feature in the first two columns to compare states or see results for only one IJR. To know more about the indicator, click on the ‘i’ button next to the indicator name. Use the side bar and indicator dropdown to navigate to other indicators across pillars and themes.

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Pillar: Judiciary

Theme: Workload

IJRs: 1, 2, 3

Formula: Cases pending for 5-10 years in subordinate courts / Total cases pending in subordinate courts * 100

Benchmark: Not available

Scoring guide: Lower, the better

Latest period/date: January 2023

Latest data source: National Judicial Data Grid

Notes:

IJR 1: 1. Data not available for Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.

IJR 2: 1. Due to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana courts from January 2019, Q4 data of 2018-19 has been used for them. 2. Figures for Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep and Puducherry are from IJR 1 as their latest data was not available.

IJR 3: 1. Data not available for Arunachal Pradesh and Lakshadweep.

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