Shillong, Oct 22: Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday informed that the Government of India has decided to remove all the obsolete laws and archaic laws from the statute books.

The Union Law Minister said this on the sidelines of a programme in Shillong. He said unnecessary laws are a burden for the common man, and that laws are meant to bring something good to the common people not to trouble them.

“Laws are meant to facilitate justice or to prescribe certain mechanisms to ensure the life of the common people is as normal as possible. So the burden of the common people must be reduced. So all those unnecessary laws which were enacted long time back, which do not have any relevance in today’s time, will not deserve to be in the statute books,” said Rijiju.

The Union Minister further added that the government has already removed more than 1500 laws.