I just came across an Indian Express article from January, which states:
If the Union Law and Justice Ministry has its way, the Indian judiciary will soon adopt the Six Sigma concept to improve its efficiency.
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A concept paper in this regard prepared by Union Law Secretary T K Vishwanathan, which will be sent to the Chief Justice of India, contains many other recommendations to speed up the judicial process and make the judiciary more transparent and accountable.
All this, ministry sources say, will be implemented if the CJI puts his stamp of approval and once the Rs 442-crore e-courts project, being implemented in all court across the country, is completed.Surprisingly, not many people in the Six Sigma community seem to have picked this up. I couldn't readily Google up additional information on this and the Concept Paper discussed in the article isn't publicly available on-line (at least not anywhere I could find).
Looks like I'll have to get more information the old fashioned way and make some phone calls. I'll post my findings here.
This isn't the first time that Six Sigma has been adapted to judicial processes, the Bedfordshire Magistrates' Court in Bedford, U.K. has applied Six Sigma principles to its criminal justice system (link opens a PDF file).
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