{"id":344788,"date":"2025-08-20T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344788"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:21:40","slug":"jan-vishwas-amendment-of-provisions-bill-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jan-vishwas-amendment-of-provisions-bill-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Government introduced the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha aiming to amend 355 provisions across 16 Central Acts to ease their applicability.<\/p>\n<h2>About Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344789\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-344789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-Ministry-of-Commerce.jpg?resize=238%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-Ministry-of-Commerce.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Source-Ministry-of-Commerce.jpg?w=691&amp;ssl=1 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Ministry of Commerce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bill builds on the <strong>Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023<\/strong>, which was the <strong>first consolidated legislation to decriminalise minor offences<\/strong> across multiple laws.\n<ul>\n<li>The 2023 Act <strong>decriminalised 183 provisions<\/strong> across <strong>42 Central Acts<\/strong> administered by <strong>19 ministries and departments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective of Bill: <\/strong>The 2025 Bill <strong>expands this reform agenda<\/strong> to cover <strong>16 Central Acts<\/strong> administered by <strong>10 Ministries\/Departments<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>A total of <strong>355 provisions<\/strong> are proposed to be <strong>amended<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>288 provisions<\/strong> decriminalised to foster <strong>Ease of Doing Business<\/strong>, and <strong>67 amendments<\/strong> under <strong>New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 (NDMC Act) and Motor Vehicles Act, 1988<\/strong> to facilitate <strong>Ease of Living<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key features of the Bill:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First-time contraventions:<\/strong> Advisory or warning for 76 offences under 10 Acts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Decriminalisation:<\/strong> <strong>Imprisonment clauses<\/strong> for minor, technical or procedural defaults replaced with monetary penalties or warnings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rationalisation of penalties:<\/strong> Penalties made proportionate, with graduated penalties for repeated offences.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adjudication mechanisms:<\/strong> Designated officers empowered to impose penalties through administrative processes, reducing judicial burden.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revision of fines and penalties:<\/strong> Automatic <strong>10% increase every three years<\/strong> to maintain deterrence without legislative amendments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Four Acts<\/strong> \u2014 the <strong>Tea Act, 1953, Legal Metrology Act, 2009, Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, and Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940<\/strong> \u2014 were part of Jan Vishwas Act, 2023 and are proposed for further <strong>decriminalisation<\/strong> under the current Bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Government introduced the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha aiming to amend 355 provisions across 16 Central Acts to ease their applicability. About Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 The Bill builds on the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023, which was the first consolidated legislation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jan-vishwas-amendment-of-provisions-bill-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1731,1760,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-344788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-bill-and-acts","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}