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Govt.’s prerogative to frame schemes: SC
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- Supreme Court has said in a judgment that, it is the sole prerogative of the government to frame schemes and courts should stay out of governance.
- A Bench led by Justice A.M. Sapre criticised the Uttarakhand High Court for framing a scheme to regularize hundreds of casual workers engaged by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in the construction of roads for Char Dham Yatra pilgrimage.
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- What courts can direct?(1) All that the High Court can do is to direct the government to consider framing an appropriate scheme.(2) It is only in exceptional cases when the court considers it proper and it should issue an appropriate mandatory direction, the Supreme Court held.(3) In the present case, a single judge of the High Court framed a scheme itself to regularize the services of the casual labourers and granted the benefits similar to those of regular employees under the labour law.
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The hindu