PRIME MINISTER WRITING TO EXPEDITE DECRIMINALISATION OF THE MINOR OFFENCES AND VIOLATIONS UNDER DIFFERENT LAWS , EFFORTS TO IMPROVE"EASE OF DOING BUSINESS"

The Prime minister Shri Narendra Modi has directed top bureaucrats to expedite the decriminalisation of minor offences and violations under different laws , According to a letter written by the Cabinet Secretary and addressed to the all Heads of the Department they have been asked to review the provisions in the laws that criminilise even minor offences and take appropriate actions to repeal or amend them .The government has been persuing decriminalisation of the minor offences as a part of its efforts to improve ease of doing business in the country. In the letter, which came barely days after several top buerocrates flagged their concern before the Prime minister over populist schemes and freebies announced by the different state governments, while terming them as unsustainable. The letter written to the Secretaries to communicate the importance of fiscal discipline at the state level and too have been asked to analyse the long term implications of such policies and decisions and share them with the state governments.