Govt to remove all obsolete laws: Rijiju

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaOctober 23, 2022

Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said the Centre has decided to remove all the ‘obsolete laws’ which are a burden for the common man.

“We have decided to remove all the obsolete laws…from the statute books, unnecessary laws are a burden for the common man,” Rijiju told reporters.

Stating that laws are meant to bring something good about the common people not to trouble them, the union minister said laws are meant to facilitate justice or to prescribe certain mechanisms to ensure that common people live as normal as possible.

“So the burden of the common people must be reduced so all those unnecessary laws which were enacted a long time back which do not have any relevance in today’s time, do not deserve to be in the statute books,” he added.

According to him, the Centre had  removed more than 1,500  such laws.

“And in the coming winter session of the parliament I am also getting ready to introduce many more refinement Acts in the parliament,” Rijiju informed.

When asked, the union minister said ILP has come through a regulation and that he is talking about the old laws which work as an impediment in the normal life of the common People.

“My point is simply to reduce the compliance burden on the people. It is the prime minister’s desire to ensure that common people can live as peacefully as possible and there should be minimum presence of the government’s role in the life of the common people,” he further asserted.