C Shivakumar
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu has nearly 1,800 cases pending in Supreme Court as the government is making efforts to dispose of the pending cases in the apex court.
As per information available with Express, the Home department has the highest number of 607 pending cases, the highest in any department. It is followed by Commercial Tax and Registration Department (117), environment and forest department (101), state electricity board (95) and state housing and urban development department (86).
A list is being prepared after state government has asked 51 departments to come up with the number of cases pending at Supreme Court so that action can be taken to dispose off the cases at the earliest.
It is learnt that of the Housing department as a whole along with Directorate of Town and Country Planning department and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has a total of 108 cases pending in Supreme court.
It is learnt that in many of the cases the state government has not filed any counter. Interestingly, this also comes in wake of state government developing a Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS), an IT application platform which will monitor cases pending against the concerned department or officials.
However, sources, said that CCMS does not have a mechanism where in it could notify why there has been a delay in filing the counter and advocate who has failed to do so.
The state government set up CCMS after information provided through Right to Information revealed that Madras High Court has 12,527 petitions of contempt of court pending against government officials while the Madurai Bench has a total of 8,475 Contempt of court cases pending against the officials between the year 2010 to February 16, 2014.
It is learnt that a review meeting was called nearly a month ago by Housing department to find out in how many petitions the counter affidavit has not been filed and in how many petitions the secretary is a respondent.
Fact file
List of pending cases in Supreme court
Departments
Home Department 607
Commercial Tax and Registration 117
Housing department (including CMDA, DTCP) 108
Environment and Forest Department 101
State Electricity Board 95
Revenue Department 74
Health and family Welfare department 62
School education 43
Energy Department 42
Higher Education 30
Municipal Administration and Water Supply 28
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu has nearly 1,800 cases pending in Supreme Court as the government is making efforts to dispose of the pending cases in the apex court.
As per information available with Express, the Home department has the highest number of 607 pending cases, the highest in any department. It is followed by Commercial Tax and Registration Department (117), environment and forest department (101), state electricity board (95) and state housing and urban development department (86).
A list is being prepared after state government has asked 51 departments to come up with the number of cases pending at Supreme Court so that action can be taken to dispose off the cases at the earliest.
It is learnt that of the Housing department as a whole along with Directorate of Town and Country Planning department and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has a total of 108 cases pending in Supreme court.
It is learnt that in many of the cases the state government has not filed any counter. Interestingly, this also comes in wake of state government developing a Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS), an IT application platform which will monitor cases pending against the concerned department or officials.
However, sources, said that CCMS does not have a mechanism where in it could notify why there has been a delay in filing the counter and advocate who has failed to do so.
The state government set up CCMS after information provided through Right to Information revealed that Madras High Court has 12,527 petitions of contempt of court pending against government officials while the Madurai Bench has a total of 8,475 Contempt of court cases pending against the officials between the year 2010 to February 16, 2014.
It is learnt that a review meeting was called nearly a month ago by Housing department to find out in how many petitions the counter affidavit has not been filed and in how many petitions the secretary is a respondent.
Fact file
List of pending cases in Supreme court
Departments
Home Department 607
Commercial Tax and Registration 117
Housing department (including CMDA, DTCP) 108
Environment and Forest Department 101
State Electricity Board 95
Revenue Department 74
Health and family Welfare department 62
School education 43
Energy Department 42
Higher Education 30
Municipal Administration and Water Supply 28
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