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The Maharashtra Deletion of the Term "famine" (From Laws applicable to the State) Act, 1963

The Maharashtra Deletion of the Term "famine" (From Laws applicable to the State) Act, 1963

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This Act regulates the legal terminology used in the Indian state of Maharashtra, applying to all state-level laws, official instruments, and public relief funds. The legislation systematically deletes the word famine from Maharashtra's legal vocabulary, replacing it with the term scarcity and renaming the state's Famine Relief Fund. This matters because it reframes the government's administrative response to food shortages, moving away from colonial-era connotations of catastrophic starvation and instead focusing on managing resource scarcity. By updating this language, the state modernizes its public relief framework and alters how it legally defines and addresses economic distress.

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  1. 1. Short title.
  2. 2. Amendments of enactments, etc., for deletion of references to "famine".
  3. 3. Amendments of Bom. LXXXIII of 1958 and power to adapt other State laws by notification.

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