You are exaggerating the number by multiple folds, these are the number of applications received by New Delhi Office between March 2013-2014, just touching hundreds.
Mar/2013- Apr/2013- May/2013- Jun/2013 - Jul/2013 - Aug/2013 - Sep/2013 - Oct/2013 - Nov/2013 - Dec/2013 - Jan/2014 - Feb/2014 - Mar/2014
486 - 492 - 712 - 670 - 565 - 482 - 402 - 359 - 271 - 333 - 303 - 233 - 19
Ref: http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/6a26595e-3b66-4591-b795-87702ed5d58e
Btw, look at the number of applications for Jan/Feb/March 2014 compared to March/April/May 2013, its just a little over half of the applications that were filed last year, still 2013 applicants are waiting so are 2014 applicants.
No wonder April applicants are getting "IP" there are just 19 applications filed in March 2014 (March could be a partial data set, but don't think it would go over 200).
So overall fewer applications than last year and increased processing times, yes, CIC efficiency half life even defies physics. You'd expect the times to go down, not here, not this year.