Thursday, July 25, 2013

Strange word called 'Policy Decision'

Well....one thing no one has got authority to question is 'Policy Decision', be it a corporate or government or any other place, when it is mentioned as policy, then no question can be asked

Last year, when many people in some states were dying of hunger, honorable supreme court of India took a sou moto case and ordered Government of India whether the food grains getting rotten in the FCI godowns can be distributed to the poor people and stop them from dying.  Agriculture ministry said in its reply that those food grains cannot be distributed and it is policy decision and court does not have jurisdiction to get into policy decisions of the government

Strange enough, court also did not take it up further.  It is right that policy decisions cannot be questioned, but what if that policy itself is not correct.  Well as the saying goes, 'Policy decisions cannot be questioned'

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