Providing roads, education is not the responsibility of the government, cannot become an industry: AG | india news
Supreme Court bench.Venkataramani told a bench led by CJI Surya Kant that on many occasions in the exercise of sovereign functions relating to defense or economy or in fulfillment of constitutional and statutory obligations, such as laying roads and railway tracks and establishing hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, the government may undertake certain acts. He said, “An approach that attempts to mechanically separate the ‘industrial’ element of a government activity from its broader sovereign or welfare purpose risks producing results that may be both theoretically unsound and practically impractical.”Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj and senior advocate Shekhar Naphade, appearing for UP and Maharashtra respectively, said if the activity undertaken by the government is not rooted in commerce or does not involve ‘profit making’, then it should not be classified as industry.