Litigation Hampers a Country\'s Development - Study on National Highway Projects

Abstract

Abstract: Court proceedings and litigation are on the rise globally. The judiciary is having trouble keeping up with the daily rise in lawsuits. Litigation impedes the development of the nation. Both developed and developing nations have their unique systems for conducting legal proceedings. The legal proceeding is intricate, time-consuming, and expensive. Each nation allocates a larger portion of its budget to infrastructure since it helps the nation's socioeconomic development. The study area is considered a national highway project of India. In this study, the eleven-year litigation data was collected from the Supreme Court of India, Gujarat High court, and Delhi High court for the National Highway Authority of India. The said data are compared with each other by a linear relationship. The finding indicates that in the various courts a significant number of unresolved cases are increasing daily. The study is valuable for displaying and quantifying the potential threat of litigation that could hamper a country's development. This study has the capacity to effectively address litigation in national highway project. This study has two limitations it has considered only national highway projects under NHAI and it focuses only on three court cases i.e. Supreme Court, Gujarat high court, and Delhi high court.