The Bill seeks to repeal 71 Acts, including the Indian Tramways Act, 1886, the Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Fund Act, 1976, and the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (Determination of Conditions of Service of Employees) Act, 1988.

It also seeks to amend four Acts -- the General Clauses Act, 1897, the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, to update terminologies for registered posts, and the Indian Succession Act, 1925, to remove the requirement to obtain validation of wills by courts in certain cases.

Besides, the Bill also amends the Disaster Management Act, 2005, to rectify a drafting error.

Meghwal said since 2014, 1,577 old archaic laws have been either repealed or amended, out of which 1,562 archaic laws have been repealed and 15 have been reenacted.

Participating in the discussion, Subhash Barala (BJP) said people have been suffering due to the old laws, and it will remove the hindrances faced by them.

Sushmita Deo (AITC) said this was an opportunity for course correction for the government to see which provisions of laws were working against civil liberty, democracy and dissent.

KRN Rajeshkumar (DMK), Subash Chandra Bose Pilli (YSRCP), Niranjan Bishi (BJD), M Thambidurai (AIADMK), A A Rahim CPI(M), Haris Beeran (IUML), Madan Rathore (BJP), Ramji (BSP), Ashok Kumar Mittal (AAP), Kalpana Saini (BJP) and Mahua Maji (JMM) also participated in the discussion on the Bill.