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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given his approval for setting up a committee that would identify and recommend weeding out of outdated laws.
The committee will be headed by the Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office R Ramanujam, while former Secretary in Legislative Department, V K Bhasin, will be a member of the committee.
The committee has been asked to submit its report in three months. The effort is to bring a comprehensive Bill, based on the recommendations of the committee, during the winter session of Parliament, a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said.
The committee will examine all Acts recommended to be repealed by a previous Committee on the Review of Administrative Laws. The previous committee was appointed during the term of the Vajpayee Government in 1998. That committee had recommended repealing of 1,328 Acts. However, only 415 have been repealed so far.
Expressing concern over the slow progress, Modi called for a focused and result-oriented exercise to systematically weed out archaic laws and rules. The Committee will also examine Acts and Rules which might have become obsolete in the last 10 to 15 years.
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