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1-10 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Within A fortnight of his impassioned appeal to the prime minister on the paucity of judges, the chief justice publicly announced that the Indian legal system currently requires over 70,000 judges to clear the backlog of cases in the country. This figure is based on observations made in a 1987 Law Commission report, “Judicial Man Power Planning”, which had recommended raising the strength of the judiciary to 50 judges per million people.
The Law Commission had itself, however, admitted that this “judge-population ratio” reasoning it had adopted for the recommendation, was based on “a very poor substitute for sound scientific analysis”. The commission had lamented that even after four decades of independence, we had not been able to organise even the minimum level of information, which could be the basis for concrete proposals on judicial manpower planning. The situation, unfortunately, is no different almost three decades later, though present-day technology offers ways to collect real-time data.
It has been repeatedly emphasised that timely disposal of cases is essential for maintaining the rule of law and good governance. It is also true that unless sufficient judicial resources are provided, the system cannot deliver timely justice. However, our policy makers have failed to devise an acceptable method to calculate the location-wise requirement of additional courts.
According to governments at the Centre and in the states, the requirement of additional courts in a particular region should be based on the case-load of the existing courts there. For these reasons, the Supreme Court had directed the Law Commission to undertake another inquiry and submit recommendations regarding the immediate measures for the creation of additional courts.
The commission, while once again expressing helplessness on the data front as it did in 1987, examined six different probable methodologies, including the “judge-population ratio basis”. It found that filing of cases per capita varied across states and was associated with economic and social conditions. It, therefore, concluded that while population might be an appropriate metric to measure the availability of services like healthcare and nutrition, it was not the apt standard to determine requirement of judicial services.
The commission, on the premise that it would be difficult to collect data for the
“workload method”, also suggested an ad-hoc mechanism — “rate-of-disposal method” — for a rough and ready calculation, based on current efficiency levels of the subordinate judiciary, to ascertain adequate judge strength. This means a fall in judicial efficiency will create higher demand of judicial resources, which may, however, be counterproductive for the institution.
Ultimately, based on research in European and American courts, it was found that the “weighted caseload method” is the most appropriate measure for the purpose. Simply put, a weighted caseload system is used to convert the court caseload into the workload of the judge. Cases vary in complexity, and each of them requires different amounts of time and attention from the judges. A mere headcount of cases pending with the judges can offer little help in distributing the workload equitably among them.
Workload in this context refers to the amount of a particular type of work, which a qualified person can handle within a determined time. The commission, though having felt that this is the most scientific method, still did not recommend its adoption on the ground that, “all information required to run this model for Indian courts is not available”.
Undeniably, the system in India does not, at present, have any information about the time required by the judges to resolve each type of case. But with the government having invested over Rs 1,000 crore (with another Rs 1,600 crore in the pipeline) to equip the Indian judiciary with current technology, there cannot be any difficulty in collecting any type of data on a real-time basis.
1 Which of the following options is the most similar to the word ‘lamented’ as given in the passage?
01. Lauded
02. Bleed
03. Deplore
04. Endorse
05. Mourned
2 Which of the following options is the most similar to the word ‘counterproductive’ as given in the passage?
01. Worthless
02. Prejudicial
03. Disadvantageous
04. Beneficial
05. Aiding
3 Which of the following options is the most opposite to the word ‘concrete’ as given in the passage?
01. Factual
02. Flexible
03. Trivial
04. Rigid
05. Tangible
4 Which of the following options is the most opposite to the word ‘impassioned’ as given in the passage?
01. Excited
02. Melodramatic
03. Zealous
04. Indifferent
05. Gallant
5 1987 Law Commission report called Judicial Man Power Planning had recommended raising the strength of the judiciary up to?
01. 100 judges per million people.
02. 500 judges per million people.
03. 50 judges per million people
04. 10 judges per million people.
05. 70 judges per million people.
6 What has the Judicial Man Power Planning recommended on raising the strength of the judiciary?
01. upto 10 judges per million people.
02. upto 20 judges per million people.
03. upto 30 judges per million people.
04. upto 40 judges per million people.
05. upto 50 judges per million people.
7 What could be the basis for concrete proposals on judicial manpower planning?
01. Judge-population ratio basis
02. Sound scientific analysis
03. Rate of disposal methods
04. 1 and 2
05. All of the above
8 Which of the following statements is/ are NOT TRUE in context of the passage?
A. All information required to run this model for Indian courts is not available.
B. Government having invested over Rs 1,000 crore to equip the Indian judiciary.
C. Weighted caseload method was given by indian courts.
D. Rate-of-disposal method is an ad-hoc method.
01. Only A
02. Only B
03. Only C
04. Both A and D
05. All of the above
9 The rate-of-disposal method is based on which of the following phenomenon?
01. Current efficiency levels of the subordinate judiciary
02. All information required to run Indian courts.
03. Conversion of the court caseload into the workload.
04. Judge population ratio.
05. All of the above
10 Which of the following method is/are the most effective according to the research?
01. Weighted caseload method
02. Rate-of-disposal method
03. Workload method
04. Judge-population ratio basis
05. Both 2 and 3.
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