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A refusal to resolve disputes across the table and easily available resources to fund lengthy trials make the government an enthusiastic litigator. We need a policy that places curbs on the Indian state to make it less litigious.
LIMBS is an online database of court cases in which GoI is a party. It has information on 6,45,000 live cases. Since case details are updated unevenly by different ministries, it is far from perfect, but LIMBS offers a bird's eye view of the nature of the problem. Around 42% of the cases of the ministries of finance and defence are more than five years old. The same holds true for 55% of cases in railways, 49% in labour and employment, and 36% in CAG.
As per the information compiled by LIMBS, the total number of cases stood at 636,605. Of this, the finance ministry is alone involved in 179,464 litigations; the defence ministry is involved in 87,543 cases; the labour and employment ministry has 80,117 cases; the ministry of home affairs accounts for 23,012 cases and the education ministry is a party in over 17,000 cases, which are pending | Latest News India
On the second day of the 2023 Monsoon Session of Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha MP Dushyant Singh raised questions regarding cases that involve the Central government. He sought answers to...
A brief recap of questions asked during the second day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, 2023.