Policy-making an evolving process, say experts
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Webinar highlights growing career options in public policy
MIT World Peace University’s School of Public Policy and The Hindu Education Plus hosted a webinar on Thursday on Understanding Public Policy and its Career Prospects. The session was moderated by R. Sujatha, Deputy Editor, Reporting with The Hindu. Elaborating on public policy, Narendra Jadhav, Rajya Sabha MP, economist, educationist and author, said, “It is a government chosen course of action with three key dimensions — definition of problems, goals the government would like to achieve, and what policies must be employed to achieve those goals. In any democracy, policymakers are legitimately elected people’s representatives — the PM, Council of Ministers, and their advisors. There are also non-elected officials such as the bureaucracy like the IAS, IPS, IRS, and others who are meant to implement policies announced by the government.” Mr Jadhav added that reforms weren’t an event, but a process and a continuous one at that. “So, when situations are evolving fast, policymakers must evolve with the times; else the polices they have adopted will become obsolete.”More Related News