National Judicial Data Grid - Pendency

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Shaonlee Patranabis

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May 25, 2019, 4:21:00 PM5/25/19
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Hey!
Has anyone scraped the NJDG website for district courts' pending cases? 

It seems quite interesting - also has there been any research on the same that one should be looking at?

Nikhil VJ

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May 26, 2019, 12:36:26 AM5/26/19
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Hi Shaonlee,

Thanks for sharing about this impressive resource.

The site does give csv downloads at many places. 
It might also be good to check if any open data portal has the same source data already published.

I have no formal qualification to be speaking on this matter, but I would love to see these metrics and many like them making their way into "standard of living", "ease of business" type indexes and rankings. This is just wishful thinking but hey who knows:
Some example scenarios: 
1. Prospective homebuyers find out about such metrics and decide that they don't want their family to live in a place with higher pending cases or higher crime statistics.
2. Companies choosing a location to set up their next office or store decide they'd rather set up where there's lowest numbers of pending cases and crimes are solved quickly.

Imagine what that would do to real estate sectors and investment and tax revenues; and then there would be pressure from very influential people on the governments to speed up and improve our chronically backlogged justice system.
"If you want them to help you in solving your problem, then make it their problem as well" :)

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Praachi Misra

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May 28, 2019, 2:03:11 AM5/28/19
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The World Bank 'Ease of Doing' business index does take into account the time and cost of Enforcement of Contracts. This ranking is based both on data collected and interviews with lawyers. Currently it covers Mumbai and Delhi Civil Courts.

Data.gov.in has some aggregated data but it does not point to lifespans of individual cases (search pendency + judicial). 

NJDG is also behind a captcha if one wants to seek out info based on individual cases. The problem with aggregated data is that it differentiates in such broad strokes (civil v criminal) that the information becomes practically meaningless. [Divorce cases v property disputes etc.] 

Recently Supreme Court of India also went behind a captcha in what seems to be in violation of its own information technology policy. It also seems to be the only apex judicial body which seems to have taken this step (see US, UK, Australia, EU countries) 

Daksh is a good source of info on the overall state of the judiciary.

Separately I can point you to some research on Income Tax dispute resolution
Also these blog posts [Disclaimer: I work for the organisation]
Question: Will location of crimes etc. be covered by the Smart City projects that are underway?

Would be happy to assist anybody undertaking work wrt. judicial data (Note: have no coding skills)

Praachi


On Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 10:06:26 AM UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote:but on interviews with lawyers
Hi Shaonlee,

Thanks for sharing about this impressive resource.

The site does give csv downloads at many places. 
It might also be good to check if any open data portal has the same source data already published.

I have no formal qualification to be speaking on this matter, but I would love to see these metrics and many like them making their way into "standard of living", "ease of business" type indexes and rankings. This is just wishful thinking but hey who knows:
Some example scenarios: 
1. Prospective homebuyers find out about such metrics and decide that they don't want their family to live in a place with higher pending cases or higher crime statistics.
2. Companies choosing a location to set up their next office or store decide they'd rather set up where there's lowest numbers of pending cases and crimes are solved quickly.

Imagine what that would do to real estate sectors and investment and tax revenues; and then there would be pressure from very influential people on the governments to speed up and improve our chronically backlogged justice system.
"If you want them to help you in solving your problem, then make it their problem as well" :)

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Cheers,
Nikhil VJ, Pune, India
http://nikhilvj.co.in


On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 1:51 AM Shaonlee Patranabis <spspat...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey!
Has anyone scraped the NJDG website for district courts' pending cases? 

It seems quite interesting - also has there been any research on the same that one should be looking at?

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Shaonlee Patranabis

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May 30, 2019, 7:29:33 PM5/30/19
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Thanks a lot, @nikhil and @praachi - the dataset is quite neat, but the aggregated forms that I can find are not useful at all. I'll have a look at the research you have pointed out, Praachi - thanks a lot!
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