India plans to reduce pendency of cases from 15 to 3 years

Indian Minister of Law and Justice, Veerappa Moily announced the ‘National Litigation Policy’ (NLP) to reduce the average time of pending cases in India from 15 years to 3 years. The NLP aims at reducing government litigation in courts. Launching the NLP to make government an "efficient and a responsible" litigant, Moily said, “monitoring and review mechanism proposed under it would prevent delay or neglect of important cases such as the Bhopal gas tragedy.”

India plans to reduce pendency of cases from 15 to 3 years barandbench.com Fri, Jun 25, 2010