Health Centre's Location Essentially Issue Of Executive Policy: Patna High Court Dismisses PIL For Additional PHC On Land Identified By Gram Sabha

While dismissing a PIL seeking a direction for construction of the Additional Primary Health Centre at village Nerthua under Nerthua Panchayat on the land selected by the Gram Sabha, the Patna High Court said that a decision as to where a healthcare centre should be located is essentially an issue of executive policy and the court cannot interfere with it.The petitioners had argued that a...