Madhya Pradesh will constitute a State Law Commission to give suggestions on abolishing old and irrelevant laws, amending the existing statutes and drafting of new laws in view of present-day requirements. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced the plan at a workshop of senior-level police officers at the Police Training Academy in Bhopal.
Chouhan said on Tuesday that a cabinet sub-committee will be formed to review the internal security situation of the state. He asked police and administrative officials to review law and order every Monday to make essential preparations at state, division and district level by assessing the probability of crime in advance.
At the state level, the chief secretary, director general of police, additional chief secretary (Home) and senior officer concerned will review law and order under the chairmanship of the home minister. Divisional commissioners and inspectors general of police will review law and order at divisional level and district collectors and SPs at district level, respectively.
The State Law Commission would be on the lines of the move by the Union government, which had formed a similar law commission headed by P.C. Jain in 1998, which had recommended repeal of 1,382 Central laws. However, only 315 laws could be repealed in March 2002.
Later, in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed a panel in PMO, which recommended repeal of 1,741 obsolete Central laws that had outlived their utility. The PMO committee comprised former secretary in the PMO R. Ramanujam (chairman) and former legislative department secretary V.K. Bhasin (member).