Law of the land determines the fate of the Nation. Development of a Nation also depends on the law maker, the law made by them, legal system of the country, the administration, rules and regulations and the enforcing and the governing body. It is said that if a law is well made and it has a relevant and specific purpose it is easy to implement it.

Further, with the changing times, the laws and the rules and regulations should also be changed and ammended from time to time. But unfortunately in our country, the parliament is not so proactive that they look into the outdated laws and amend suitably accourding to the changing times.

For an instance, the Punjab Excise Act still says that when you open a bar, you have to call the ‘DHOL WALA’ ( Drummer ) to announce its innaugral. Imagine, that a high society lounge is being innaugrated in a posh area and a DHOLWALA has to be called in the innagration and get the photographs clicked and submit them to the excise authorities to get the license. A funny sight indeed.

Again, the Indian Factories Act stipulates that each factory in India should have a water pot in the factory premises to provide drinking water to the employees. In todays world, no one would install a waterpot in its factory but would rather prefer to install a water cooler. But to my astonishment, i saw the authorities inspecting the factory pressing for the waterpot. The authorities even fined the factory I was auditing for not having a waterpot in its premises. You all will be surprised to know that the huge multiplexes ( commercial malls etc) are also categorised as a ‘FACTORY’ according to the statute. Now imagine that all the multiplexes in the country having to put a water pot in their premises.

One more fuuny but true instance of law not being ammended can be seen in the Punjab Police Act. According to the act the Punjab police has to send daily reports to its headquarters in Lahore. So Pakistani President Pervez Mussharaf has one more reason to be angry with India as according to the Punjab Police Rules 1914, the act stipulates that the Punjab Police has to keep in touch with it head quarters in Lahore on a daily basis and the rules have not been changed til today—hence they still remain in force. So in a way, the head quarters of Punjab Police is still in Pakistan — A country with which we have fought 3 wars.

So I have started this thread where we all can post the instances where such laws and statutes are still out dated in the hope that maybe some day it catches the eyes of our law makers and they take a notice of it and ammend them so as to make our nation a progressive nation, a better nation.

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