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Vice-President urges enhanced Centre-State partnership on legal reforms
India's Vice-President has called for strengthened coordination between the central government and states to drive legal reforms, emphasizing that cooperative federalism should preserve state autonomy. The remarks came during the inauguration of a major conference on federalism and law reforms organized by the Law Commission of India.
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The Vice-President addressed delegates at the 'Cooperative Federalism and Law Reforms: National and State Perspectives' conference, underscoring the need for improved institutional mechanisms to align centre and state initiatives on judicial modernization and legislative reform.
Highlighting the principle of cooperative federalism, the Vice-President stressed that such collaboration should not impose uniform solutions across India's diverse states and union territories. Instead, he emphasized that individual states must retain the flexibility and discretion to devise legal frameworks tailored to their unique social, economic, and cultural contexts.
The remarks reflect ongoing efforts to balance national legal standards with regional autonomy, a critical challenge in India's federal structure. The Law Commission's conference brought together legal experts, policymakers, and administrators to deliberate on how the centre and states can work in tandem while respecting constitutional divisions of power.
The Vice-President's emphasis on preserving state-level flexibility comes amid broader discussions on legislative harmonization, particularly in areas such as consumer protection, environmental law, and criminal justice reform, where both coordinated action and local adaptation are deemed necessary for effective implementation.