The development of human resources, and material progress or infrastructural building cannot be achieved without a dynamic legal system congruent to environmental protection and to the maintenance of socio-cultural mores. This paper will try to analyze the legal reforms initiated by the Buddhist era and to evaluate the successes and failures of the British and post-colonial periods. This paper will emphatically try to examine the challenges of legal reforms in accelerating the ways of empowerment process for masses in general, and women, working people, and children in particular. The paper will objectively identify the reasons and elements that are standing as stumbling blocks in front of urgent legal reforms we are need of as a nation. Furthermore, this paper will suggest how to fight the negative forces that are not at all conducive to our national interests and peace, and prosperity.