Overview

• India’s Department of Legal Affairs launched the dashboard under the LIMBS platform, with Arjun Ram Meghwal inaugurating the rollout on October 14.
• The dashboard provides live visualisation of court matters and an overview of upcoming hearings to help ministries act proactively.
• Official data show 7,23,123 ongoing cases are currently tracked across 53 ministries and departments.
• A total of 13,175 ministry users and 18,458 advocates are updating case information on the portal on a regular basis.
• Officials framed the initiative within Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to reduce government litigation, noting the Centre’s role in nearly seven lakh pending cases and the finance ministry’s involvement in roughly two lakh.