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.”

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