Nyaaya

Nyaaya is a legal-tech initiative, created by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and ideated by Rohini Nilekani, to make India's laws easier to understand.

Organisation

We are in the process of converting the laws in Akoma Ntoso format to markdown that will be categorised by:

• Administration of Justice
• Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
• Banking, Insurance and Finance
• Charitable and Religious Institutions
• Citizenship
• Civil Procedure
• Consumer Affairs
• Contracts and Torts
• Cooperative Societies
• Corporate Laws
• Criminal Justice
• Defence of India and Armed Forces
• Delimitation and Elections
• Education
• Energy
• Environment
• Food and Public Distribution
• Government
• Industry
• Institutions of Natural and Cultural Importance
• Intellectual Property
• International Relations
• Labour
• Land
• Media, Communications and Publishing
• Nationalism
• Personal
• Professional
• Property
• Public Health
• Rent
• Social Welfare
• Trade and Commerce
• Transportation and Infrastructure
• Women and Children

Submitting a New Law

1. Join Github

Sign up for an account with Github.

2. Go to the Central Laws Folder

We are currently maintaing all the new markdown laws in the Central Laws folder of this repository.

3. Choose the right category and click on "Create a new file"

4. Enter the name of the law

5. Paste the contents of the bare act in the text area below

6. Add Markdown formatting to the bare text of teh act

• Add # before the Title of the Act
• Add #### before Act number
• Add ##### before the date of passing
• Add ## CHAPTER before chapter number and name
• Add ### before section numbering
• Add #### before subsection numbering
• All clauses to be treated as dot points and preceeded by -
• Wrap other headings in ** like **Explanation** and **Illustration**

7. Write a short description of what your source is and Open Pull Request

Modifying an existing Law

1. Join Github

Sign up for an account with Github.

2. Go to the Central Laws Folder and find the law you want to edit

We are currently maintaing all the new markdown laws in the Central Laws folder of this repository.

3. Click on Edit this file

4. Modify the content while maintaining the markdown format

• Add # before the Title of the Act
• Add #### before Act number
• Add ##### before the date of passing
• Add ## CHAPTER before chapter number and name
• Add ### before section numbering
• Add #### before subsection numbering
• All clauses to be treated as dot points and preceeded by -
• Wrap other headings in ** like **Explanation** and **Illustration**

5. Write a short description of what your source is and Open Pull Request

License

All contributions made to this Open Repository are subject to open source license terms expressed in the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.