The Chhattisgarh Government has commenced preparations to do away with its old and irrelevant laws. The State law Commission has directed to identify laws of different departments in its first meeting held here on Wednesday. State law Commission Chairman Justice lC Bhadoo chaired the meeting along with Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand for first time.
He said that all the departments of the State have been provided list of the related laws. The secretaries of the departments have been asked to get proposals from the head of departments to study the laws and identify them which are very old and have become irrelevant in the present time. The secretaries have been directed to provide the list to the commission, law Department and Chief Secretary within 15 days.
Justice Bhadoo said that nodal officers should be nominated in each department for the purpose. He also inquired about laws, rules and regulations of different department during the meeting. Justice Bhadoo said that if any law is not included in the list provided by the Commission, then it should be added in the list.
Similarly those laws, rules and regulations which need to be removed, their list should be prepared and provided to the Commission. He emphasised on the need of amendments in rules to make them more useful. Additional Chief Secretary, Finance DS Misra, Additional Chief Secretary, Home NK Aswal, Additional Chief Secretary, Agriculture, Ajay Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development, MK Raut, Principal Secretary, Health, Dr Alok Shukla, Principal Secretary, Urban Administration, RP Mandal, Principal Secretary, law, AK Samant Ray, Principal Secretary,PWD and Public Relations Amitabh Jain and other senior officers were present in the meeting.