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Om Birla Opens Chandigarh Legislative Drafting Workshop Focused on Clarity

The state-level training advances ICPS’s 2023 national initiative to help lawmakers craft simpler, more accessible statutes.

Overview

  • The two-day programme at MGSIPA, Chandigarh, was inaugurated on Friday for Haryana Vidhan Sabha and state officials.
  • Birla said ambiguity in laws invites greater judicial intervention and urged plain, transparent drafting to aid citizens’ access to rights and justice.
  • Organisers said about 400 participants are attending sessions on constitutional values, precise legal language, and rules of interpretation.
  • Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Haryana Speaker Harvinder Kalyan, Deputy Speaker Krishan Lal Middha, and Karnataka Speaker U.T. Khader Fareed attended the opening.
  • The course forms part of the ICPS-led National Legislative Drafting Initiative under the Home Ministry, delivered as a two-credit certificate with programmes run in multiple states and the Parliament House Complex.