NEW DELHI, Sept 28: The Government has shunned the idea of bringing a national litigation policy that was in the works for years, and instead issued directives to Union ministries, departments and PSUs on ways to cut down on court cases. The Central Government is a party in nearly seven lakh cases pending across courts, according to official data. Out of these, in about 1.9 lakh cases the Ministry of Finance is mentioned as a party”. The national litigation policy has been drafted and redrafted over several years with successive governments deliberating on its contours. In the UPA II, the then law minister M Veerappa Moily came out with a national litigation policy but it never went forward.