There must be a policy to compensate farmers for crop failure. This is a national issue and of larger public interest." In February last year, the SC had refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the government to fix minimum support price (MSP) of agricultural products. A bench headed by then CJI T S Thakur had said, "We are not supposed to go into policy matters. It is a problem of governance and the government has to take measures.

Source: Times of India January 27, 2017 23:39 UTC