Naidu calls for detailed legislative impact assessment for informed law making

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday advocated detailed Legislative Impact Assessment (LIA) brining out social, economic, environmental and institutional impacts of legislative proposals for informed law making in the country.

The Vice-President said that it would be useful to indicate such impact assessment in the legislative proposals for wider dissemination among all the stakeholders.

Naidu further elaborated on the need for such impact assessment while referring to legislative process in the country during his address to 151 officials who have recently joined the Rajya Sabha Secretariat. It is for the first time that Rajya Sabha Chairman has interacted with new recruits on joining the Secretariat.

On the occasion, Secretary General Desh Deepak Verma, Secretary PPK Ramacharyulu and other senior officials of Rajya Sabha Secretariat were present.

Naidu further said that inter-ministerial consultations are held before the Cabinet considered and approved legislative proposals but the scope for undertaking and indicating the impact of such proposals is limited in the present context.

He said, "Informed legislation will help in realising the stated objects of various laws and this requires a detailed impact assessment of legislation at the stages of both pre-legislation and post-legislation. An account of pre-legislative impact assessment could be included either in the Bill or as an Annexure to the Bill."