THE WAITING ROOM
In West Bengal, the courts are open.
Every hour at current rates: 575 new cases filed.
225 decided. The backlog grows by +350.
This is the backlog. It is not an abstraction.
THE WAIT
39.4 lakh cases are waiting in West Bengal's district courts. The middle of the backlog has already been waiting about 24 months. A backlog this big is not going to move on its own.
Cases waiting to be decided.
These are court cases that have been filed but not yet disposed. We count everything that is still open on the day the source numbers were published — including cases that are only a few days old and cases that have been pending for years.
Every one of these is a person waiting for their day in court.
About how long a pending case has been waiting in court.
This is an estimate of the middle of the backlog — roughly how old a typical pending case is. It is not the age of any one case. Courts publish cases grouped into age buckets (0–1 year, 1–3 years, and so on), and we estimate from those buckets.
Half the cases pending today have been waiting longer than this.
How many cases courts finish for every 100 new ones they get.
If this number is 100, courts are keeping pace with new filings. Below 100 means the backlog is growing. Above 100 means courts are catching up. We calculate it from the monthly filing and disposal totals published in the source dashboard.
For every 100 new cases, only 39 are being cleared. The backlog keeps growing.
Districts where several pressure signals line up at once.
A district lands on this list when it combines a large backlog of pending cases with slower clearance or longer waits than the state average. It is a signal for closer inspection, not a finding about any specific court or official.
Where the backlog is heaviest, or the wait is longest, or the pace is slowest.
These numbers add scale and persistence to the headline backlog. They are scenarios and signals from the same published data, not predictions.
14,71,623 pending cases are already older than 5 years.
Backlog grew by 1.1% of the pending pile last month.
Needed 44,841 more clearances last month to break even.
A 10% backlog cut in a year would need about 77,669 extra clearances per month.
Share of the pending load held by the five largest district backlogs.
Flagged in 6 of the last 6 published snapshots.
INVESTIGATION PATH
Start with the headline pressure, then inspect districts, snapshot movement, comparisons, and citation-ready exports for West Bengal.
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Sort by backlog, clearance pace, typical wait, or file-clear gap to find the first pressure signal worth inspecting.
Open district workspace02
Compare the two most recent published snapshots when history is available, so a one-month change does not get lost in the table.
Open movers03
Use the district page for history, caveats, citations, downloadable CSVs, and the metric definitions behind each number.
Inspect top district04
Use the public data, API, and press kit instead of raw capture files or unpublished runs.
Open press kitA district lands here when its backlog, its waiting time, or its pace of work is out of line with the rest of the state. These are signals for closer inspection, not findings.
Calcutta has 14,49,531 cases waiting. A typical pending case falls around 730 days old, and the district cleared 38.2% as many cases as it received last month. It stays on the list of districts to watch in this snapshot.
Cases waiting to be decided.
These are court cases that have been filed but not yet disposed. We count everything that is still open on the day the source numbers were published — including cases that are only a few days old and cases that have been pending for years.
About how long a pending case has been waiting in court.
This is an estimate of the middle of the backlog — roughly how old a typical pending case is. It is not the age of any one case. Courts publish cases grouped into age buckets (0–1 year, 1–3 years, and so on), and we estimate from those buckets.
How many cases courts finish for every 100 new ones they get.
If this number is 100, courts are keeping pace with new filings. Below 100 means the backlog is growing. Above 100 means courts are catching up. We calculate it from the monthly filing and disposal totals published in the source dashboard.
Why it is flaggedNew cases are coming in faster than this district is clearing them, and the queue is already among the state's biggest.
South Twenty Four Parganas has 4,23,022 cases waiting. A typical pending case falls around 2739 days old, and the district cleared 31.8% as many cases as it received last month. It stays on the list of districts to watch in this snapshot.
Cases waiting to be decided.
These are court cases that have been filed but not yet disposed. We count everything that is still open on the day the source numbers were published — including cases that are only a few days old and cases that have been pending for years.
About how long a pending case has been waiting in court.
This is an estimate of the middle of the backlog — roughly how old a typical pending case is. It is not the age of any one case. Courts publish cases grouped into age buckets (0–1 year, 1–3 years, and so on), and we estimate from those buckets.
How many cases courts finish for every 100 new ones they get.
If this number is 100, courts are keeping pace with new filings. Below 100 means the backlog is growing. Above 100 means courts are catching up. We calculate it from the monthly filing and disposal totals published in the source dashboard.
Why it is flaggedNew cases are coming in faster than this district is clearing them, and the queue is already among the state's biggest.
North Twenty Four Parganas has 3,71,020 cases waiting. A typical pending case falls around 1461 days old, and the district cleared 42.3% as many cases as it received last month. It stays on the list of districts to watch in this snapshot.
Cases waiting to be decided.
These are court cases that have been filed but not yet disposed. We count everything that is still open on the day the source numbers were published — including cases that are only a few days old and cases that have been pending for years.
About how long a pending case has been waiting in court.
This is an estimate of the middle of the backlog — roughly how old a typical pending case is. It is not the age of any one case. Courts publish cases grouped into age buckets (0–1 year, 1–3 years, and so on), and we estimate from those buckets.
How many cases courts finish for every 100 new ones they get.
If this number is 100, courts are keeping pace with new filings. Below 100 means the backlog is growing. Above 100 means courts are catching up. We calculate it from the monthly filing and disposal totals published in the source dashboard.
Why it is flaggedNew cases are coming in faster than this district is clearing them, and the queue is already among the state's biggest.
Each bar is a previously published statewide snapshot. It shows how the backlog has moved across publication dates, not a continuously refreshed surface.
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