Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to scrap obsolete laws is welcome, but the task is easier said than done.
 | >The Long (H)arm of the LawThough there have been several committees to advise on reform measures, busy bureaucrats have prioritised routine tasks with the result that reports on administrative reforms gather dust. >Read More... |
>‘Periodic spring-cleaning of statute law needed’"Citizens will be spared the inconvenience of taking notice of laws which have ceased to bear any relevance to current conditions this way. The process assumes great importance when the statute law is growing in bulk and magnitude." >Read More... | |
| >Colonial yoke or bureaucratic insouciance?Blame the British’ is an oft-invoked argument when the subject of India’s outdated laws comes up for discussion. But 68 years since Independence, can we still afford to parrot that old line? >Read More... |
