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The Indian government will scrap 287 laws that date back to the 19th , when India was under British rule. India's Law Minister Ravi Prasad is overseeing a "clean-up" of India's legal . He has been instructed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to streamline the book and make India an easier place in to live and do business. India's legislature is mired in hundreds of arcane introduced in the times of the British Empire. Mr Prasad called some of the laws "" and had "no in a modern and democratic India". Prasad has a tough ahead of him. Even after this initial cull, the country will still have thousands of regulations that are to business.

The repeal of the laws will take from November. After then, it will no longer be illegal to fly a kite without police . A 1934 law classified a kite as an aircraft. A law that is a source of irritation to factory owners is one that requires them to have red full of water and sand, even if their buildings are equipped with state-of-the-art systems. Another to go is the Motor Vehicles Act, that says a car safety must have clean . Also going is the Registration of Foreigners' Act, 1939, which requires foreigners staying in India for more than 180 days to report his/her . This should give a to India's tourism industry.

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