Minister Instructs Training to Standardize Law-Making Process

Kathmandu: Minister for Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, Anil Kumar Sinha, has stated that he has instructed arrangements for training to bring uniformity in the structure, wording, and other aspects of law-making.

On Sunday, at a joint meeting of the Legislation Management Committee and the Public Policy and Subordinated Legislation Committee, he said that many issues had been raised regarding law-making, and he directed that training be provided to personnel to ensure uniformity in the language and structure of laws.

He said, “I have also noticed many shortcomings myself and am evaluating them. Regarding the issues raised in law-making, bringing uniformity in its structure and wording was one of my first decisions upon joining the ministry—to start providing training for this. Our laws’ language and structure must be as uniform as possible. For this, we had even formed a committee and started studying the matter to arrange training for the personnel.”

He further assured that delays and errors in law-making would be minimized and that timeframes would now be set for drafting laws. He said, “There is no dispute regarding the need for improvements in the Law Ministry. The process of reform is always ongoing. There may be occasional errors or delays in law-making. Now, we plan to set specific timeframes for drafting laws. I also want to assure that delays will no longer occur.”

Regarding monitoring, he acknowledged the ministry’s weakness and apologized, promising to focus on improving it. He also mentioned that the recent work on the election-related ordinance is now being carried out based on the 2078 BS census data, whereas all previous elections were conducted using data from the 2068 BS census provided by the Statistics Department.