excerpts from the press release on 22nd June from NAC
IV Pre Legislative Process
8. Smt Aruna Roy ,Convener on Working Group on Accountability and Transparency
mentioned that as part of strengthening participatory democracy, it is important to go
beyond the existing Parliamentary consultative process and directly involve the people in the
formulation of important decisions, policies and laws drafted in the name of the sovereign.
All proposed policies and laws should be opened up to public discussion before finalization,
with the scope of discussion being determined by the scope of the proposed policy or law.
There needs to be a clearly defined process that mandates public participation and
consultation at every stage, from the time a decision is taken to draft a policy till the time it is
represented as a Bill to be tabled in Parliament. The principles and need justifying the policy
decision, suggested framework and scope etc must be widely and pro actively shared with the
people concerned, by the Government. The NAC decided that the Working Group of NAC
on Transparency, Accountability and Governance will evolve a policy on ‘pre-legislative
consultative processes’ for recommending to the Government.
IV Pre Legislative Process
8. Smt Aruna Roy ,Convener on Working Group on Accountability and Transparency
mentioned that as part of strengthening participatory democracy, it is important to go
beyond the existing Parliamentary consultative process and directly involve the people in the
formulation of important decisions, policies and laws drafted in the name of the sovereign.
All proposed policies and laws should be opened up to public discussion before finalization,
with the scope of discussion being determined by the scope of the proposed policy or law.
There needs to be a clearly defined process that mandates public participation and
consultation at every stage, from the time a decision is taken to draft a policy till the time it is
represented as a Bill to be tabled in Parliament. The principles and need justifying the policy
decision, suggested framework and scope etc must be widely and pro actively shared with the
people concerned, by the Government. The NAC decided that the Working Group of NAC
on Transparency, Accountability and Governance will evolve a policy on ‘pre-legislative
consultative processes’ for recommending to the Government.