The effectiveness of laws in India can be improved by formalizing the process post-legislative scrutiny. Analyze.

Post-legislative scrutiny refers to making effective provisions to determine the efficacy of laws and their effectiveness after their enactment.

Need to formalize post legislative scrutiny:

• Laws need to be reformed to cater for changing times.
• Laws may not be working as it was intended, e.g. TADA, 2004, this increases the possibility of misuse.
• To ensure accountability of legislation after enacting laws.
• To avoid repealing of laws due to public opposition, e.g. farm laws.
• To clear out lapses that may be missed while formulating the laws.
• To ensure people’s participation and social audit of laws.
• To ensure that the archaic laws are repealed.
• In India, post legislative scrutiny is available only with the judiciary in the form of judicial review and with the Parliament, which are not efficient.

Post-legislative scrutiny is instrumental in aligning the laws to the current needs of the people.