164 provisions contained in 42 State Acts set to be decriminalised
The Haryana Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini here today, approved the proposal to introduce the Haryana Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Ordinance, 2025. This initiative aligns with the Government of India’s vision of reducing compliance burdens and decriminalising minor offences across various sectors.
The Haryana Jan Vishwas Ordinance, 2025 seeks to decriminalise 164 provisions contained in 42 State Acts administered by 17 departments. The Ordinance replaces criminal penalties for minor technical and procedural lapses with civil penalties and administrative actions. It also removes obsolete and redundant clauses, ensuring that the legal framework is more transparent, efficient and facilitative.
This reform initiative follows the enactment of the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 by the Government of India, which decriminalized 183 provisions across 42 Central Acts. In pursuance of the advisory issued by the Union Government, Haryana has undertaken a comprehensive review of its laws to adopt a similar approach at the State level.
The introduction of the Haryana Jan Vishwas Ordinance, 2025, was identified as a key action item during the 4th Chief Secretaries’ Conference and forms an important component of the ongoing Compliance Reduction and Deregulation (CRD) exercise being coordinated by the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. A series of meetings chaired by the Chief Secretary, Haryana, with the participation of Administrative Secretaries of all concerned departments, led to the finalisation of this landmark reform. This ordinance marked a major shift from enforcement-based to trust-based governance.
This Ordinance represents the most extensive decriminalization effort undertaken by any State Government to date, with the highest number of criminal provisions proposed for removal.
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