Pre Legislative Consultation Policy

Pre Legislative Consultation Policy brought in 2014 aims at making pre-legislative scrutiny more effective. When a normal bill is introduced in the Parliament it goes through the following phases before being finalized into an act.

• Briefly, the pre-legislative scrutiny takes place before the final drafting of a bill has been decided and is introduced in the Parliament. Only a few bills receive an effective scrutiny, hence the government brought this policy.

Some Important Features of the Policy

• Every Department/Ministry shall proactively publish the proposed legislations both on the internet as also through other means;

• The ....