57% of district and subordinate court cases take more than 10 years to dispose of. We need to have access to high resolution data on judicial processes at both the high court as well as the lower court level. Allahabad high court has an average of 77 hearings per judge per day whereas Calcutta high court does 148 hearings. The CJI’s office and high courts should have a live dashboard which can update them on the performance of the high courts, justices, and the aggregated data of the lower courts, with simple colour coded markers for the various KPIs. However, Civil Revision Petitions are decided on average in 77 days at Bombay high court whereas Civil Appeals take 2,303 days on average.
Source: Times of India May 15, 2017 20:37 UTC