State Rankings by Judiciary | India Justice Report

Rankings Methodology

Rankings Methodology

Large and mid-sized states Andhra Pradesh Bihar Chhattisgarh Gujarat Haryana Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Telangana Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal

Small states Arunachal Pradesh Goa Himachal Pradesh Meghalaya Mizoram Sikkim Tripura

Union Territories Andaman & Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra & Nagar Haveli Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Daman & Diu Delhi Jammu & Kashmir Ladakh Lakshadweep Puducherry

Unranked states Assam Manipur Nagaland

Police

Budgets Modernisation fund used Spend on police per person Spend on training per personnel Share of training budget in police budget Training budget utilization

Human Resources Constables, vacancy Officers, vacancy Officers in civil police

Diversity Share of women in police Share of women in officers SC officers, actual to reserved ratio SC constables, actual to reserved ratio ST officers, actual to reserved ratio ST constables, actual to reserved ratio OBC officers, actual to reserved ratio OBC constables, actual to reserved ratio

Infrastructure Population per police station (rural) Population per police station (urban) Area per police station (rural) Area per police station (urban) Services provided by state's citizen portals Personnel per training institute Police stations with CCTVs Police stations with women help desks

Workload Population per civil police

Trends Women in total police, trends Women officers in total officers, trends Constable vacancy, trends Officer vacancy, trends Difference in spend: police vs state, trends

Prisons

Budgets Spend per inmate Prison budget utilized

Human Resources Officers, vacancy Cadre staff, vacancy Correctional staff, vacancy Medical staff, vacancy Medical officers, vacancy Personnel trained

Diversity Women in prison staff

Infrastructure Prison occupancy Jails with V-C facility Undertrials detained for 1-3 years Inmates (admitted) availed educational course Inmates (admitted) availed vocational training Share of jails with 100% and more occupancy Share of jails with 150% and more occupancy

Workload Inmates per officer Inmates per cadre staff Inmates per correctional staff Inmates per medical officer

Trends Officer vacancy, trends Cadre staff vacancy, trends Share of women in prison staff, trends Inmates per prison officer, trends Inmates per cadre staff, trends Share of undertrial prisoners, trends Spend per inmate, trends Prison budget used, trends Difference in spend: prisons vs state, trends

Judiciary

Budgets Per capita spend on judiciary

Human Resources Population per High Court judge Population per sub. court judge High Court judge vacancy Sub. court judge vacancy High Court staff vacancy

Diversity Women judges (High Court) Women judges (sub. court) SC judges, actual to reserved (sub. court) ST judges, actual to reserved (sub. court) OBC judges, actual to reserved (sub. court)

Infrastructure Courthall shortfall

Workload Cases pending (5-10 years) (sub. court) Cases pending (10+ years) (sub. court) Average High Court pendency Average sub. court pendency Case clearance rate (High Court) Case clearance rate (sub. court) Cases pending (5-10 years) (High Court) Cases pending (10+ years) (High Court)

Trends Cases pending (per High Court judge), trends Cases pending (per sub. court judge), trends Total cases pending (High Court), trends Total cases pending (sub. court), trends Judge vacancy (High Court), trends Judge vacancy (sub. court), trends Case clearance rate (High Court), trends Case clearance rate (sub. court), trends Difference in spend: judiciary vs state, trends

Legal Aid

Budgets NALSA fund utilized State's share in legal aid budget State legal aid budget utilised

Human Resources DLSA secretary vacancy PLVs per lakh population Sanctioned secretaries as % of DLSAs Panel lawyers trained

Diversity Share of women in panel lawyers Women PLVs

Infrastructure DLSAs as % of state judicial districts Villages per legal services clinic Legal services clinic per jail Presence of front offices in LSIs Presence of front offices in DLSAs

Workload PLA cases: settled as % of received Total LAs: Pre-litigation cases disposed SLSA LAs: Pre-litigation in cases taken up

State Indicator Data

State Indicator Raw Data

The visualisation shows the performance of the cluster of 18 large and mid-sized states (population above 10 million) in IJR 2022. States ranked 1-6 are shown in dark green, those ranked 7- 12 in light green and those ranked 13-18 in light brown. The mouseover on the map shows, additionally, each state’s rank across 4 pillars and 3 ranked themes. Use the dropdown on top left to see performance in IJR 2019 and IJR 2020.

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Measures performance on capacity metrics in judiciary

Rank	State	Score (out of 10)
1 –	Tamil Nadu	6.96
2 ↑	Karnataka	6.79
3 ↓	Punjab	6.55
4 ↓	Kerala	6.38
5 ↑	Telangana	6.34
6 ↓	Chhattisgarh	6.16
7 ↑	Jharkhand	6.14
8 ↑	Uttarakhand	5.63
9 ↓	Gujarat	5.54
10 ↑	Madhya Pradesh	5.40
11 ↑	Andhra Pradesh	5.21
12 ↓	Maharashtra	5.16
13 ↑	Odisha	5.06
14 ↓	Haryana	4.72
15 ↑	Uttar Pradesh	4.05
16 ↑	Bihar	4.03
17 ↓	Rajasthan	4.01
18 ↓	West Bengal	3.46

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