Home Ministry yet to receive Lakshadweep draft regulations

The draft Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation 2021, which provides sweeping powers to the Administrator to take over land and relocate folks amongst others, would require ratification from the Home Ministry and the Union Cabinet earlier than it’s carried out.

A senior ministry official informed The Puucho that it was yet to receive the draft regulations from the Lakshadweep administration. The official mentioned the regulation was drafted by the Lakshadweep administration, and the Home Ministry had no position to play.

Home Ministry is the administrating authority for the Union Territory of Lakshadweep.

Any proposed change to the legal guidelines within the Union territory of Lakshadweep is to be introduced by way of regulations, as a substitute of a Bill as is the case in different UTs with a legislature comparable to Delhi and Puducherry. These regulations are then put up for public session and as soon as the response is acquired it’s despatched to the Home Ministry.

“The Ministry will examine the regulations, and only after it clears them will the draft be sent to the Union Cabinet for approval. Till now, the Ministry has not received the regulations,” mentioned the official.

The draft regulation proposes seven years’ imprisonment for consumption or sale of beef, and people who have greater than two youngsters can not contest panchayat elections.

The draft was positioned within the public area looking for feedback on April 28 and the final date to ship recommendations was May 19.

Several political leaders, together with Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to intervene and withdraw the brand new orders and regulations launched by Administrator Praful Khoda Patel.

Mr. Patel, a former Gujarat Minister, took over as administrator on December 5 final 12 months after the passing of Dineshwar Sharma, former Director, Intelligence Bureau.