Topics Covered:
Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.
India Justice Report (IJR)
What to study?
For Prelims and mains: Key findings and concerns expressed by he report and ways to address them.
Context: India Justice Report (IJR) has been released.
It has been prepared by Tata Trusts in collaboration with Centre for social Justice, Common Cause, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Daksh, TISS-Prayas and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.
It is India’s first-ever ranking of states on justice delivery.
Performance of various states:
- The list is topped by Maharashtra.
- Maharashtra is followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Key Issues highlighted:
- Vacancy was an issue across the pillars of the police, prisons, and the judiciary, with only about half the states having made the effort to reduce these over a five-year period.
- The country as a whole has about 18,200 judges with about 23 per cent sanctioned posts vacant.
- By 2017, women are also poorly represented in these pillars.
- The prisons in the country were over occupied at 114 per cent, where 68 per cent are undertrials awaiting investigation, inquiry or trial.
- Nationally, high vacancies in the justice system.
- Only two states have met the 80 per cent of SC/ST/OBC reservation required to be followed and that there are high vacancies in prison staff.
Sources: the Hindu.
