Govt to push bill to remove 65 more obsolete laws in Parliament session: Rijiju

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said the government would push a bill in the Parliament session which will resume on March 13 to repeal 65 more obsolete laws and other such provisionsAddressing the 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference in Goa the minister informed that more than 498 crore cases are pending in various courts in India and the pendency would be handled using technology with a paperless judiciary being the ultimate aim of the governmentToday in every part of our country every citizen is a beneficiary of the welfare steps taken by the Government of India As a welfare state it is very important that we listen to every individual he saidRijiju said the Modi government has been at the forefront of taking various steps especially in creating ease of living for common citizens Policies of the government regarding the ease of living are successful he saidAlso Read UP Railway police seize 97 Indian flapshell turtles being trafficked to West BengalThe law minister said the government believes that laws are for the people and if laws become obstacles and compliances become a burden on the lives of people then such provisions must be done away withIn the last eightandahalf years we have removed 1486 obsolete and redundant laws In the ongoing budget session which will resume on March 13 I am going to push a bill to remove another 65 bills laws and other provisions that are obsolete he addedRijiju said the government wants a reduction in the pendency of the casesMore than 4 crore 98 lakh cases are pending in various courts of India It is not easy to reduce the pendency simply because new cases are double the number of cases being disposed of Indian Judges are working extraordinarily hard but it is becoming more challenging he addedThe minister said in normal circumstances a judge handles 5060 cases a day on average Some judges have disposed of 200 cases in a day but the pendency of cases is on the riseRijiju said the government is using technology to handle this situationWe have started ecourts and special projectsphase III our ultimate target is to make Indian Judiciary paperless he said adding that the government is also exploring other dispute redressal mechanisms like arbitration and mediationVery soon we will be able to push through Mediation Bill so that mediation and arbitration can be institutionalized in the country he addedGoa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and others were present during the inauguration of the fiveday conference on MondayRepresentatives from 52 countries are participating in the eventThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever