The Ruling of the Supreme Court of India on Presidential Reference regarding th auctioning of Natural Resources by the Government is blurred and is open for interpretations.
”This is the reason why the Government seems to have been relieved on the ruling.The bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia and Justices DK Jain, JS Khehar, Dipak Misra and Ranjan Gogoi unanimously replied that the 2G judgment, which cancelled 122 spectrum licences and ordered their auction, was never meant to be an “auction only” prescription for allocation of natural resources other than spectrum. ….
“The recommendation of auction for alienation of natural resources was never intended to be taken as an absolute or blanket statement applicable across all natural resources, but simply a conclusion made at first blush over the attractiveness of a method like auction in disposal of natural resources,” the bench said.’
The Court could have simply dismissed the petition as frivolous instead of making such a non -committal observation.
Who is how to decides on ‘The Common Good?’
This is subjective and any one can decide as to what is Common Good’ and by-pass the judgement in any way they want.
Anticipation/Projection of the amount that might be realised by Auctioning is , again subjective and notional,
The Government may argue that by allotting to some one it might realise money.
And this,is for the Greater Good’
Where does this leave one?
‘Ring a ring of Roses, pocket full of Roses’?
