National judicial data grid made available online for public access with case pendency statistics

The public access portal of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) was inaugurated today (19 September 2015) by  Justice Madan B. Lokur, Judge, Supreme Court and In-charge, eCommittee, Supreme Court, in the presence of Chairpersons of the Computer Committees of all the High Courts and Secretary, Deptt. of Justice, Government of India. This will allow access to the figures of pendency of District Judiciary Courts across the country, in aggregate for country and States as well as individual Court/Judges by any member of public visiting the National eCourts portal ecourts.gov.in.

Here is an illustrative example of the statistics that we downloaded from the NJDG website today on 19 September 2015 (Please note that presently, presently, the NJDG contains information of 1.94 Crore pending cases out of approximately 2.7 Crore cases of District Judiciary of the Courts under all the High Courts of the country. However, data for Madhya Pradesh and Delhi is presently available since case data for these states is being migrated to National version of Case Information Software. Some courts are not yet computerised and in some cases connectivity issues may lead to non-updation of information.):

And, the following image the charts for pendency figures as on 19 September 2015 on the NJDG website:

This NJDG public access page is available at ecourts.gov.in/services (after visiting this page, you have to click the NJDG option from the top menu bar). Alternatively, you can visit this link directly. It provides consolidated figures of pendency of cases in District Judiciary across the country. These statistics will be updated everyday by the respective Court Complexes covered under the eCourts Project. They will show case pendency broken into Civil and Criminal Cases segregated into age-wise categories of upto 2 years, between 2 to 5 years, between 5 to 10 years and more than 10 years. The NJDG page for public access will also disseminate national and State, district and court wise information about institution and disposal of last month of cases and also the cases filed by senior citizen and women in the total pendency. The public access page also has feature of monitoring alerts like all cases listed today across the country and the cases where no date is updated or a date more than 3 months later is updated.

All of the above referred statistics is provided in drill-down manner i.e. on clicking the figure for national pendency, next page showing its breakup of state-wise pendency will be shown. This way, a particular case information can be accessed by further drilling down from State to district, district to a Court establishment and then to the individual Court.

This initiative is in furtherance of the motto of judiciary to promote transparency and access of information for all the stakeholders of the justice delivery system.