PUNE, March 13: Underlining the need to simplify the laws governing the State which had been uneccasarily drafted in a complicated manner, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi said that the government shortly proposed to simplify the court legislation in simple Marathi. He expected the work to be completed by 2000 AD.Delivering the inaugural address at the Consumer Welfare Awareness Workshop organised by the State Government at the Shiv Shankar Sabhagriha here on Thursday, the Chief Minister wondered why the laws had been complicated when numerous people continued to remain ignorant of their rights. All the legislations in Maharashtra need to be simplified, he asserted. Lauding the work of the State Government high power committee headed by Bindumadhav Joshi accomplished during the last three years, Joshi remarked that it would not be wrong to say that the other departments could be inspired by the model created by the consumer movement activists.
The Chief Minister gave an assurance to the participants of theworkshop that the State Government would take all efforts to ensure the implementation of the resolution passed by the workshop as legislations. He sought to dispel the common notion that only morchas and agitations forced the State Government to listen to people citing the example of the consumer movement which had silently out across the message of consumer rights.
Earlier Bindumadhav Joshi, chairman of the Consumer Welfare High Power committee in his introductory address said that 34 consumer redressal fora in Maharashtra had already decided over 11,000 cases in a short period of 10 months. The Chief Minister earlier felicitated Justice A A Halbe for his contribution to the State Consumer Commission. District collector BE Nagarale of Buldhana and Upper District Collector Deolikar of Osmanabad bagged Consumer Protection Cell Karyagaurav Puraskar. The chief minister later released five books related to consumer welfare.
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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