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PROGRESS OF FAST TRACK COURTS

New Delhi ~ June 25 2001

During the first quarter ending June 2001 459 fast track courts have been set up all over the country out of a total 1734 such courts slated for establishment under the award of the 11th Finance Commission.

Of these 25 fast track courts have been set up in Andhra Pradesh followed by three such courts in Arunachal Pradesh

15 in Assam

29 in Chattisgarh

10 in Jammu and Kashmir

13 in Karnataka

85 in Madhya Pradesh

93 in Maharashtra

3 in Meghalaya

3 in Mizoram

3 in Nagaland

12 in Orissa

40 in Rajasthan

3 in Tripura

45 in Uttranchal

64 in Uttar Pradesh and

13 in West Bengal.

In view of the huge backlog of more than two crore pending cases in the district and subordinate courts these 1734 additional courts to be known as fast track courts are expected to expedite disposal of long pending cases priority being given to sessions cases and cases involving undertrials in jails considering that about two lakh undertrial prisoners were languishing in jails.

These courts are being set up by State Governments in consultation with the respective High Courts. The apex court is also being kept informed.

These courts will continue till March 2005. Each court is expected to dispose of 14 sessions cases or 25 other criminal and civil cases per month. It is expected that fast track courts will dispose of about two million cases by the year 2005.

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