Economist Sanjeev Sanyal has opined that India needs a ‘Transparency of Rules Act’ so that all rules and procedures are notified in real time on the website of the relevant government agency or department, in one coherent document, rather than as a series of circulars.26 Sanyal is spot on. Transparency of rules would not just make life easier for all citizens as they go about their business, whether it is obtaining a driving licence or registering a new company. Transparency of rules would be a meta-reform that could catalyse new debates on what rules are needed, and how existing rules may be
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