In a significant initiative, the Urban Development Ministry has stopped physical printing of Government of India’s Gazette Notifications and started e-publishing of the same, putting an end to the long wait for the important documents.
This shift to e-publishing came at the behest of Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu from the first of this month, said a senior official from the Ministry. “Gazette Notification is an important legal requirement to validate, authenticate and to make effective various kinds of laws, acts, rules, orders and Government decisions. All user groups had to wait for a few months for copies of such notifications as physical printing of the same was a time taking exercise.