Mentors Comments:
In the intro discuss what do you understand by this statement.
Give your viewpoint with reasons whether you agree/disagree with the statement.
Give suggestions how the correctness and incorrectness of a decision can be decided.
Provide some examples to substantiate your points. You can use the examples of various government functionaries who faced actions because of this dilemma and later were acquitted by judiciary.

Answer:

It is difficult to decide whether a decision is correct or incorrect. Every decision is presumed to be honest unless wrong-doing is suspected or revealed later on. Further who decides that a decision is correct or incorrect and what is the yardstick to define correctness or incorrectness.

‘Public interest’ can be the yardstick for doing so but that is also hard to define. In simple cases where decisions are taken against the public interest (hence incorrect) for a consideration are easy to understand as both dishonest and incorrect. For instance, in the case of 2G spectrum allocation in 2008 or in the case of the coal block allocations.

But in many other cases what may be correct in the short run may turn out to be not so in the long run, for example accelerating growth at the expense of the environment. There may be incorrect yet honest decisions, for instance, a mother forbidding her son to go to swimming classes may be due to her concerns for safety and thus is an honest decision; however it may also be termed as an incorrect decision as the child may never learn this valuable skill. So, one cannot say that correct decisions are honest and incorrect decisions are dishonest.

Correct decision-making involves two aspects:
 Knowing the facts of the situation: Any attempt to make a good decision has to begin with getting the facts of the situation straight. For example, if we wish to decide how much of our forests should be cut down now, we need first to establish some facts about the rate at which forests regenerate.
 Sensitivity to the moral dimensions: Quite often we may act in a morally questionable manner just because we were insensitive to the moral nature of the situation.

For example, most of us do not require intensive moral deliberation to avoid lying in most cases. For taking a correct decision includes an awareness of the various parties who will be affected by the decision taken, sensitivity to the range of values or principles which might be applied to the question at hand, as well as sensitivity to other contextual or historical factors which might justifiably influence the decision.