The Union Law Ministry took a crucial step this year to help the central government shed the tag of being the “biggest litigant”, but at the same time, efforts towards promoting mediation, which can eventually help in reducing court pendency, have fallen short.
The year 2025 also saw the appointment of Gyanesh Kumar as the new Chief Election Commissioner under a new law, which has been dubbed by the opposition as “non-inclusive”.
As part of the Modi government’s agenda to clean up statute books of obsolete laws, the ministry brought a bill to repeal over 70 such Acts that had lost their relevance over the years. The bill received Parliament’s nod in the Winter session.
While 65 of these laws were amendment Acts, which were brought to tweak existing laws, six were principal laws that had become outdated. At least two laws repealed were of the British era.
Since May 2014, the Modi government has been consistently repealing colonial-era, archaic and obsolete laws to declutter statute​The Union Law Ministry took a crucial step this year to help the central government shed the tag of being the “biggest litigant”, but at the same time, efforts towards promoting mediation, which can eventually help in reducing court pendency, have fallen short.
The year 2025 also saw the appointment of Gyanesh Kumar as the new Chief Election Commissioner under a new law, which has been dubbed by the opposition as “non-inclusive”.
As part of the Modi government’s agenda to clean up statute books of obsolete laws, the ministry brought a bill to repeal over 70 such Acts that had lost their relevance over the years. The bill received Parliament’s nod in the Winter session.
While 65 of these laws were amendment Acts, which were brought to tweak existing laws, six were principal laws that had become outdated. At least two laws repealed were of the British era.
Since May 2014, the Modi government has been consistently repealing colonial-era, archaic and obsolete laws to declutter statute ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
