Kiran Bedi praises PM Modi for setting up Committee to identify obsolete laws

Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi on Wednesday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his decision to set up a Committee to identify obsolete laws.

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"The Prime Minister had been saying this during his election campaigns that he would look at obsolete laws. He had been saying this. So, whatever he was saying during his election campaigns, one sees one by one tasks getting into the pipeline for implementation. The other countries constantly review their laws, they constantly update their laws; we still have a Police Act of 1861, we still have a Prisons Act of 1894, we have so many obsolete laws," Bedi told ANI here today.

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"So, therefore, it's again something which the country did not do since independence which this Prime Minister is taking upon himself," she added.

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Prime Minister Modi has approved the constitution of a Committee to carry out a review to identify obsolete laws.

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The newly-constituted Committee will examine all Acts recommended to be repealed by the Committee on Review of Administrative Laws, which had been appointed by the Union Government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1998.

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The Prime Minister has expressed concern that out of the 1382 Acts recommended for repeal by that Committee, only 415 have been repealed so far. He has called for a focused and result-oriented exercise to systematically weed out archaic laws and rules.

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The Committee will also examine Acts and Rules which may have become obsolete within the last ten to fifteen years.

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The Committee will be chaired by R. Ramanujam, Secretary PMO. V.K. Bhasin, former Secretary, Legislative Department, will be its other member.

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The Committee will submit its report within three months, so that a comprehensive Bill can be introduced in the Winter Session of Parliament, based on its recommendations.