Chief Justice NV Ramana's Appeal On Improving Judge-To-Population Ratio

Referring to Attorney General KK Venugopal's statement, the CJI highlighted the issue of vacancies and pendency of cases. Mr Venugopal had said that 40 million cases are pending before trial courts, while 4.2 million civil cases and 1.6 million criminal cases are pending in high courts.

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday highlighted the issue of judicial vacancies and urged the chief justices of high courts to improve the judge-to-population ratio so that it is comparable to advanced democracies.

CJI Ramana said as on today, out of 1,104 sanctioned posts of high court judges, there are 388 vacancies.

Speaking at a joint conference of chief ministers and chief justices of high courts at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi, he said an important factor in promoting access to justice is filling up of judicial vacancies and increasing the sanctioned strength of judges.

"From day one, it has been my endeavour to fill judicial vacancies. We have made 180 recommendations for appointments in various high courts last year. Out of these, 126 appointments have been made. I thank the Government of India for clearing the names.