Simplify laws & repeal irrelevant ones: Minister

JAIPUR: PHED and energy minister B D Kalla during a cabinet sub-committee meeting on the progress of works under six departments on Saturday, as listed in the Jan Ghoshna Patra, directed the law department to review the old laws, under revenue and other departments, that are irrelevant and are required to be repealed, and also work towards simplification of the complicated laws.
“We have directed the law department to work towards reviewing the old laws that have become irrelevant with the objective of repealing them and simplification of complicated laws. The secretary of the law department will collect information regarding this from the officials of the department and other departments that are related to this every month and take appropriate action. Most of these laws are under the revenue department,” Kalla told TOI.
“The recommendations of the committee will later be sent to the cabinet for approval. We will give the departments 2-3 months’ time to accelerate the progress of work,” he added.
Development works of 6 departments were reviewed on Saturday. The departments include revenue, PHED, transport, law department, Public Works Department (PWD) and water resources. The officials of all the departments were instructed to monitor the matters related to their departments and submit a report to the committee after conducting a monthly review.
“It was directed to the transport department to provide free passes to students appearing for competitive examinations. They informed that Rs 92 lakh has been spent on this. They are also doing it for NEET-JEET examination aspirants,” he added.
Of the 8 points under PWD in the Jan Ghosna Patra, work is in progress in six of these and task has been initiated on two points. Of the 10 cases under the transport department, work has been completed in one and seven are in progress. Action has been taken on two points. Under the revenue department, of the six points, work has been completed in two, two are in progress and action has been initiated in one.
Of the 8 points under PHED, five are under process and action has been taken on two points. Of the 8 points under the law department, two are in progress and action has been taken on 4.
Similarly, under the water resources department, 9 out of 12 works are in progress and approval has been issued for one. Action has been taken on two other points.