Special Parliament Session: Check the updated list of bills that can be taken up by govtThe upcoming Special Parliament Session will discuss and pass several bills, including the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, the ...
18 Sep, 2023, 06.00 PM IST
25 government bills pending in Rajya SabhaThere are currently 25 government bills pending in the Rajya Sabha, including a bill from 1992 that proposes a two-child norm for panchayat...
07 Sep, 2023, 04.26 PM IST
Bill to repeal over 60 old laws, rectify error in one introduced in LSPiloted by Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, the bill is one of the periodical measures by which enactments which have ceased to be in force, or h...
19 Dec, 2022, 03.11 PM IST
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar officiates as Rajya Sabha Chairman, winter session commencesSome of the bills slated for introduction in the Winter Session of Parliament are the Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill, 2022, the Geographical ...
07 Dec, 2022, 01.57 PM IST
Cabinet clears proposal to scrap 105 redundant lawsPrasad told reporters that the two-member committee constituted by the PMO, the Law Commission and the Legislative Department had identifie...
18 Jan, 2017, 06.50 PM IST
Lok Sabha approves Rajya Sabha amendments to 2 repeal billsThe amendments to Appropriation Acts (Repeal) Bill 2015 that seeks to repeal 758 old appropriation acts which have lost relevance.
03 May, 2016, 06.50 PM IST
On second thought, DoPT does not want to scrap Pensions ActThe Department of Personnel and Training has decided against scrapping the law, which exempts pension from being "attached or sequestered".
17 Apr, 2016, 01.19 PM IST
Government withdraws Repeal Bill from Lok Sabha to correct duplicacyLaw Minister Gowda withdrew the Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill, 2015, in Lok Sabha amid din created by Opposition over the Lalit Modi ...
23 Jul, 2015, 05.41 PM IST
Parliament clears bill to repeal 36 redundant lawsThe bill was cleared by the LS in December and the RS earlier this month, but had to travel back to the lower house for certain technical a...
07 May, 2015, 03.07 PM IST
Lok Sabha passes bill to repeal 35 archaic lawsSeeking to weed out archaic and dead laws, the Lok Sabha today approved a bill to repeal as many as 35 legislations.
18 Mar, 2015, 08.44 PM IST
Rajya Sabha refers two bills to Select CommitteesThe Payment and Settlement Systems (Amendment) Bill, 2014 and The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2014 were passed by Lok Sabha in the Winter ...
23 Dec, 2014, 03.17 PM IST
Opposition wants bill on repealing laws to be sent to Select panelThe Bill passed today seeks to remove certain Amendment Acts from the statute books as they have outlived their utility.
10 Dec, 2014, 09.42 PM IST
Bill to repeal 90 Amendment Acts gets Lok Sabha nodCongress and CPI(M) said by not referring the bill to the Parliamentary Standing Committee, government was trying to "sabotage" the committ...
08 Dec, 2014, 05.07 PM IST
Bill to repeal 90 Acts introduced in Lok SabhaLaw Minister D V Sadananda Gowda introduced The Repealing and Amending (Second) Bill, 2014, which seeks to remove certain Amendment Acts fr...
03 Dec, 2014, 07.52 PM IST
Law Commission recommends repeal of 72 archaic lawsOne of the laws recommended for repeal dates back to 1836. Several others recommended for revoking belong to period dating from 1838 to 189...
12 Sep, 2014, 03.56 PM IST
Repeal of obsolete laws: Law panel says ministries not helpingModi has expressed concern that out of the 1382 Acts recommended for repeal by that Committee, only 415 have been repealed so far.
09 Sep, 2014, 04.52 PM IST
- Bill introduced to repeal 36 obsolete laws
The decision is in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda to do away with archaic laws which are hindering efficient governance.
11 Aug, 2014, 05.05 PM IST