Thirty four new courts to come up in Odisha
Odisha currently has more than 700 subordinate courts. According to a reply given by Union law minister Kiren Rijiju in Lok Sabha on March 25, total 15.45 lakh cases are pending cases in lower courts in Odisha. They include 12.38 lakh criminal cases and 3.07 lakh civil cases. Similarly, 1.89 lakh cases are pending in the Orissa high court, the HC’s pendency report as on April 29 on its website shows.