Lok Sabha Question No. 1464 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-10
Subject: Web Portal for cases Pending in Various Courts
Ministry: LAW AND JUSTICE
Asked by: Bholanath (B.P. Saroj), Upendra Singh Rawat

## Government of India Ministry of Law & Justice Department of  Legal Affairs *****

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1464 TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 10 TH  FEBRUARY,2021

Web Portal for cases pending in Various Courts

1464. SHRI BHOLANATH (B.P SAROJ): SHRI UPENDRA SINGH RAWAT:

## Will the Minister of LAW and JUSTICE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has initiated any step to establish the web portal for each Ministry/ Department of the Government where they can upload the details of cases which are pending in various courts and the status of these  cases  so  as  to  help  in  effective  monitoring  of  court  cases  by  the Department of Legal Affairs;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  started  any  structural  legal  framework  of mediation; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF LAW AND JUSTICE, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

(a) to (d) : A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  to  (d)  OF  THE UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO-1464  DUE  FOR  ANSWER  ON  10.02.2019  IN  THE LOK SABHA

## (a)  and (b)

Department  of  Legal  Affairs(DoLA)  vide  Gazette  Notification  dated  08.02.2016  has implemented Legal Information Management & Briefing System (LIMBS), an IT enabled application for monitoring of court cases where Government of India is one of the party. It has been implemented in 72 Ministries/Departments of the Government where they can upload  the  details  of  cases  which  are  pending  in  various  courts  and  the  status  of  these cases. Further the application has been revamped to a new robust secure platform equipped with dashboard view for quick analysis of cases at senior level so as to help in effective monitoring of court cases. As on 02.02.2021, Ministries/Departments have uploaded 6.32 lakh court cases in LIMBS application.

## Parts (c) to (d)

Mediation is one of the Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms available to the court under Section 80 of the Civil Procedure Code and has emerged as a popular and useful method  for  settlement  of  disputes.  It  involves  negotiations  also.  The  Legal  Services Authorities have been actively involved to get the disputes settled through Mediation. The details  of  the  number  of  existing  mediation  centres  and  cases  settled  through  mediation centers are as under:-

## a) ADR Centres and Mediation Centres  (As in November, 2020)

|   S.NO | SLSAs                    |   ADR Centres |   Existing Mediation Centres other than ADR Centres |
|--------|--------------------------|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
|      1 | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |             1 |                                                   1 |
|      2 | Andhra Pradesh           |            13 |                                                   0 |
|      3 | Arunachal Pradesh        |            21 |                                                   2 |
|      4 | Assam                    |            12 |                                                  15 |
|      5 | Bihar                    |            16 |                                                  11 |
|      6 | Chhattisgarh             |             2 |                                                  33 |
|      7 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |             1 |                                                   0 |
|      8 | Daman &Diu               |             0 |                                                   1 |
|      9 | Delhi                    |             0 |                                                   6 |
|     10 | Goa                      |             5 |                                                  10 |
|     11 | Gujarat                  |            12 |                                                  14 |
|     12 | Haryana                  |            17 |                                                   5 |
|     13 | Himachal Pradesh         |             7 |                                                  12 |
|     14 | Jammu &Kashmir           |            16 |                                                   8 |
|     15 | Jharkhand                |            24 |                                                   0 |

| 16   | Karnataka        |   30 |   29 |
|------|------------------|------|------|
| 17   | Kerala           |    7 |   64 |
| 18   | Lakshadweep      |    0 |    0 |
| 19   | Madhya Pradesh   |   43 |  143 |
| 20   | Maharashtra      |   37 |    0 |
| 21   | Manipur          |    1 |    0 |
| 22   | Meghalaya        |    1 |    2 |
| 23   | Mizoram          |    2 |    2 |
| 24   | Nagaland         |    0 |    1 |
| 25   | Odisha           |   16 |   16 |
| 26   | Puducherry       |    2 |    2 |
| 27   | Punjab           |   17 |    7 |
| 28   | Rajasthan        |   30 |  144 |
| 29   | Sikkim           |    4 |    4 |
| 30   | Tamil Nadu       |   32 |   11 |
| 31   | Telengana        |    4 |    7 |
| 32   | Tripura          |    1 |    5 |
| 33   | U. T. Chandigarh |    1 |    1 |
| 34   | Uttar Pradesh    |   61 |    0 |
| 35   | Uttarakhand      |    4 |   16 |
| 36   | West Bengal      |   18 |    2 |
|      | Grand Total      |  458 |  574 |

## b) A statement showing the number of cases settled through mediation during the last three years viz 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 is given below:

| S.NO   | Name of the State Legal Services Authority   | No. of cases settled through mediation centres   | No. of cases settled through mediation centres   | No. of cases settled through mediation centres   |
|--------|----------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| S.NO   | Name of the State Legal Services Authority   | 2017- 18                                         | 2018- 19                                         | 2019- 20                                         |
| 1      | Andaman &Nicobar Islands                     | 2                                                | 14                                               | 15                                               |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh                               | 870                                              | 1124                                             | 922                                              |
| 3      | Arunachal Pradesh                            | 0                                                | 0                                                | 0                                                |
| 4      | Assam                                        | 434                                              | 354                                              | 402                                              |
| 5      | Bihar                                        | 546                                              | 294                                              | 930                                              |
| 6      | Chhattisgarh                                 | 509                                              | 660                                              | 967                                              |
| 7      | Dadra &Nagar Haveli                          | 1                                                | 14                                               | 18                                               |
| 8      | Daman &Diu                                   | 10                                               | 3                                                | 16                                               |
| 9      | Delhi                                        | 705                                              | 802                                              | 837                                              |
| 10     | Goa                                          | 12                                               | 16                                               | 65                                               |
| 11     | Gujarat                                      | 655                                              | 520                                              | 654                                              |
| 12     | Haryana                                      | 2473                                             | 2429                                             | 2623                                             |
| 13     | Himachal Pradesh                             | 577                                              | 446                                              | 326                                              |

| 14   | Jammu &Kashmir   |     49 |   116 |    84 |
|------|------------------|--------|-------|-------|
| 15   | Jharkhand        |   6791 |  8954 |  8137 |
| 16   | Karnataka        |   6248 |  6515 |  6753 |
| 17   | Kerala           |  11417 | 12534 | 13384 |
| 18   | Lakshadweep      |      0 |     0 |     0 |
| 19   | Madhya Pradesh   |  30569 | 21995 | 19292 |
| 20   | Maharashtra      |  27208 | 20255 | 20595 |
| 21   | Manipur          |      8 |    26 |    42 |
| 22   | Meghalaya        |      1 |     1 |     0 |
| 23   | Mizoram          |      0 |     0 |     0 |
| 24   | Nagaland         |      0 |     0 |     0 |
| 25   | Odisha           |    225 |   108 |    90 |
| 26   | Puducherry       |     16 |    26 |    20 |
| 27   | Punjab           |   1780 |  2317 |  2591 |
| 28   | Rajasthan        |   2273 |  2548 |  2219 |
| 29   | Sikkim           |     63 |    49 |    73 |
| 30   | Tamil Nadu       |   1333 |  2460 |  2379 |
| 31   | Telangana        |    755 |   571 |   641 |
| 32   | Tripura          |     11 |    27 |    29 |
| 33   | U. T. Chandigarh |    343 |   362 |   433 |
| 34   | Uttar Pradesh    |   7775 |  8092 |  7147 |
| 35   | Uttarakhand      |    455 |   514 |   517 |
| 36   | West Bengal      |   3473 |  4820 |  2664 |
|      | Grand Total      | 107587 | 98966 | 94865 |

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