New Delhi, April 11 -- In an effort to cut the government's litigation costs, the union law and justice ministry has proposed creating additional legal cells in each ministry for oversight on each instance of litigation, along with a scale to rank the importance of each matter.

According to an office memorandum dated 4 April titled "Directive for the efficient and effective management of litigation by the government of India", the ministry has also planned to create a new data portal for arbitration matters where the government is a party, based on the existing National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) for court cases.

The NJDG provides a count of pending and resolved cases in Indian courts. The data is compiled by the government from individu...