Cases pending (5-10 years) (High Court)

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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

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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. 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. Mouseover on the map to see a state’s exact values for the indicator and the raw data used to calculate the indicator. 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: 3

Formula: Cases pending for 5-10 years in High Courts / Total cases pending in High Courts * 100

Benchmark: Not available

Scoring guide: Lower, the better

Latest period/date: January 2023

Latest data source: National Judicial Data Grid

Notes: States and UTs that share a High Court have been assigned the same value. These are Kerala and Lakshadweep; West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh; Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh; Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu; Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Rank	State	Score (out of 10)
1	Tamil Nadu	10.00
2	Rajasthan	9.33
3	Karnataka	8.43
4	Jharkhand	8.39
5	Maharashtra	7.78
6	Uttar Pradesh	7.75
7	West Bengal	7.56
8	Uttarakhand	7.26
9	Bihar	6.84
10	Gujarat	6.81
11	Odisha	6.74
12	Haryana	6.13
12	Punjab	6.13
14	Chhattisgarh	5.98
15	Andhra Pradesh	5.18
16	Madhya Pradesh	4.96
17	Telangana	3.28
18	Kerala	1.00

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