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“

Policy making

should display

cohesion between

multi-sectoral

aspects and

should strive to

achieve coherent

and viable

co-ordination

between

multi-faceted

adjectives

”

What do you mean by -erefore, it is difficult to define with selection of prime goals and
‘Policy’? ‘policy’ as a single concept. Gray the means to achieve them.
et al. (1984:32) have given a
useful definition: From the above definition we can
The term ‘policy’ is generally identify four important features of
used to refer to the direction or A policy can be seen as an abs- policy. First, policy refers to the
guidance for developing and mai- traction of reality and is defined problem areas such as energy pol-
ntaining any activity of an econo- as a group of decisions taken by icies, economic policies, policies
my. It is inter-linked with many authoritative decision makers, w- for health care, welfare, housing,
other concepts such as program- hich can at least analytically be defense, agriculture etc. These
me, project and planning and con- linked with some degree of coher- different areas are always interre-
sists of decisions and actions. Th- ence and which are concerned lated and, therefore, policies for

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