Union Minister Meghwal launches revamped India Code portal

• Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal launched the revamped India Code Portal on August 13.

• It was developed with coordinated efforts of the Legislative Department and the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

• India Code provides a unified digital repository of the Constitution, Central Acts and their subordinate legislations, State Acts and their subordinate legislations, as well as Union Territory legislations and regulations. 

• The revamped portal marks an important step in the government’s continuing endeavour to make access to laws simpler, faster, wider and more citizen-centric, using contemporary digital technologies.

• It enhances the manner in which citizens, legal professionals, researchers, the judiciary and government can search, navigate and access legislative information through improved and intelligent search capabilities, AI-assisted search and interaction, semantic and speech-based search, easier navigation across legislations, access to amendments and legislative history, linkage of Acts with relevant subordinate legislation, integration with the e-Gazette ecosystem, improved document viewing, QR-enabled access and a structured citizen-feedback mechanism. 

• It also seeks to enable AI-assisted multilingual access to laws in all 22 languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.

(The author is a trainer for Civil Services aspirants.)