Legal and judicial reforms are immediately essential to address the massive pendency and capacity issues in Indian courts, which hinder access to justice. Several archaic and obsolete laws have already been repealed and many others are in the process of being weeded out. The recently announced umbrella scheme on “Modernisation of Police Forces” to strengthen law and order and modernize the police is a welcome stimulus. A part of police reform is intrinsically linked to legal or judicial reform, which would result in efficient criminal justice dispensation. The major challenge facing the judiciary is the huge backlog of over 2.7 crore pending cases. There are also significant capacity issues. Ease of doing business in India is severely constrained by the inability to enforce contracts or laws, lengthy and costly litigation and arbitration processes, and archaic legislations. Although we have the Arbitration Law of 1996, which is in tune with global principles, it has not yielded desired results in terms of lessening the pressure on courts. Nor have the alternative dispute resolution mechanisms been utilized adequately. The World Bank “Doing Business Report” 2018 ranks India at 164 in ‘Enforcing Contracts’; though an improvement of 8 positions, it is clearly not an acceptable situation. Police reform until recently had been stuck due to various reasons. Police/law and order is a state subject, falling under List II of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. In a federal set up like ours, this makes policy reform a rather sticky issue. After accounting for vacant positions, there are only 137 police personnel per 100,000 citizens (17.3 lakh in all). The UN recommends 222 police personnel per 100,000 citizens. Create a policy environment that enables income security for farmers, whilst maintaining India’s food security. Encourage the participation of the private sector in agricultural development to transition from agriculture to robust agri-business systems. Promote through government policies the emergence of ‘agripreneurs’ so that even small and marginal farmers can capture a higher share of value addition from ‘farm gate to fork’. In this context this article highlighted on effective governance and policy reforms on legal, judicial and agriculture sectors in sustainable development of transition Indian society.
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