A dear advocate friend of mine , recently told me about the following which I was not aware of ...
- About two-thirds of our laws have not been used in independent India.
- About 10% them can be scrapped right away.
- And most of the 10 % in use currently have so many obsolete and conflicting provisions.
- The oldest law in the country has been in operation for over a century and half. The one sentence 1836 Bengal District Act empowers the Bengal government to create as many zillas as it wants. The Act still exists.
- Under the Indian Sarais Act, 1867, it is a punishable offence for ‘inn-keepers’ not to offer free drinking water to passer-by.
- Only about 40 per cent of our laws are in regular use. Independent India has till now found no conceivable use for the rest.
- While India badly needs efficient laws, the time spent by the law-making body on the job is unbelievably little.
- Parliament spends less than 0.6 per cent of a Lok Sabha day on law-making.
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