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Parliament connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) passed a Bill seeking to repeal oregon amend 71 obsolete and outdated laws with a presumption to enhancing easiness of surviving for citizens.
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Piloting the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025, successful the Rajya Sabha, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said it aimed astatine removing outdated laws, correcting errors that had crept successful during the law-making process and removing discriminatory aspects of definite laws.
The Bill was passed by dependable ballot successful the Rajya Sabha. It was earlier approved by the Lok Sabha connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025).
Replying to the treatment connected the legislation, Mr. Meghwal said that 1 of the main aims of the Bill was to heighten the easiness of surviving for citizens.
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"We springiness precedence to easiness of surviving on with easiness of doing business," the Minister said, adding that if laws person go obsolete, the authorities would bring authorities to repeal them.
The Minister said that nether the Indian Succession Act, 1925, if a Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain oregon Parsi made a volition successful the past Madras, Bombay and Calcutta presidencies, it had to beryllium probated, portion a akin proviso does not use to Muslims.
"Why not Muslims? Will determination beryllium nary information implicit it? This is the Narendra Modi authorities and the state volition relation according to the Constitution," helium said, adding that immoderate favoritism connected the ground of religion, caste and enactment is prevented by the Constitution.
"These reforms are a measurement towards liberation from a assemblage mindset," helium added.
Vivek K. Tankha (Congress) disagreed with the Minister that the Bill was aimed astatine freeing from the assemblage mindset, alleging that the authorities had lone done paperwork to implicit method formalities without assessing the interaction of the Bill connected radical connected the ground.
The Bill seeks to repeal 71 Acts, including the Indian Tramways Act, 1886, the Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Fund Act, 1976, and the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (Determination of Conditions of Service of Employees) Act, 1988.
It besides seeks to amend 4 Acts — the General Clauses Act, 1897, the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, to update terminologies for registered posts, and the Indian Succession Act, 1925, to region the request to get validation of wills by courts successful definite cases.
Besides, the Bill besides amends the Disaster Management Act, 2005, to rectify a drafting error.
Mr. Meghwal said since 2014, 1,577 aged archaic laws person been either repealed oregon amended, retired of which 1,562 archaic laws person been repealed and 15 person been reenacted.
Participating successful the discussion, Subhash Barala (BJP) said radical person been suffering owed to the aged laws, and it volition region the hindrances faced by them.
Sushmita Deo (AITC) said this was an accidental for people correction for the authorities to spot which provisions of laws were moving against civilian liberty, ideology and dissent.
KRN Rajeshkumar (DMK), Subash Chandra Bose Pilli (YSRCP), Niranjan Bishi (BJD), M Thambidurai (AIADMK), A A Rahim CPI(M), Haris Beeran (IUML), Madan Rathore (BJP), Ramji (BSP), Ashok Kumar Mittal (AAP), Kalpana Saini (BJP) and Mahua Maji (JMM) besides participated successful the treatment connected the Bill.
