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Modi Government Has Scrapped 1,200 Archaic Laws; Axe To Fall On 1,824 More
Swarajya Staff
Jun 22, 2017, 06:34 PM | Updated 06:34 PM IST
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India still operates on many of the archaic laws that were introduced before the country’s independence. Most of them are bizarre, with no relevance to modern India and far behind the times.
When it came to power, the Narendra Modi government had promised to rid our law books of these old, unnecessary Acts. Looks like it has come true on its promise. Over 1,200 archaic laws have been weeded out, reported India Today, in the last three years while as many as 1,824 more central laws have been identified for repeal.
The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government had created a committee in 1998 to review all the administrative laws and identify those which had to be repealed. Now a committee headed by R Ramanujam, secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office, has been reviewing all the Acts recommended for repeal by the earlier committee and submitting reports to the current government. The future of these archaic laws, finally, seems bleak.
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