Addressing a meeting of Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT) to review the action plan for the year
2016, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of
North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances,
Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today
that Government plans to strike down “irrelevant” laws by repealing or
revoking more than thousand existing ones as a part of its mission to
achieve the goal of minimum government and maximum governance.
Reiterating the Prime Minister Shri
Narendra Modi’s call to do away with avoidable laws and rules, Dr
Jitendra Singh said that the Government will abolish several of the
existing laws which have ceased to be relevant in the present date and
time. Disclosing that as many as 1053 laws are pending for Parliament
approval to be repealed, Dr Jitendra Singh said about 649 laws have been
sent and circulated among Ministries and States for comments and the
process of repealing or revoking them will be carried forward after
obtaining the comments of the concerned Ministries and Departments.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that the DoPT
proposes to reduce the number of tribunals from 36 to 17 and at the same
time, reduce or restructure as many as 685 autonomous
bodies/institutions during the year 2016. In the times to come, the DoPT
will also chalk out a possible plan for exit of Government sectors from
hospitals, air services etc and a sunset clause will also be attached
to every new scheme.
In a bid to ensure ease of governance,
Dr Jitendra Singh said that a mechanism will be worked out wherein the
information already available on the official websites or official
portals is not to be asked for through RTIs etc, in order to reduce the
pendency and workload accruing from such queries. While the work on
simplified one-page form and self-attestation of certificates has
already begun, the DoPT is also working out the feasibility of issuing
the Residence/Domicile certificates as well as SCs/STs/OBCs certificate
at primary age to every child by class 5, he added.
Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary DoPT and senior officers of the Department were present at the meeting.
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