Directive Principles of Directive Principles of State PolicyState Policy

Presented byPresented byT.B.BHARATHIT.B.BHARATHI

Teacher in Social SciencesTeacher in Social SciencesThe Hyderabad Public SchoolThe Hyderabad Public School

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What are these?

These are the guidelines for the government laid down in Part IV of our Constitution.

The inspiration is derived from the Irish Constitution and also from the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

Their Nature

• They are non-justiciable rights of the people.

• They are fundamental in governance of the country.

• If laws are made to give effect to the Directive Principles, they shall not be invalid on the ground that they take away your Fundamental Rights.

Classification

EconomicPrinciples

General Principles

GandhianPrinciples

Directive Principles

Gandhian PrinciplesThe State shall promote educational and economic interests of the weaker sections and SC’s and ST’s.Prevent consumption of liquor and other intoxicating drinks and improve the public health.Organize Village Panchayats.To encourage cottage industries and to provide employment in rural areas.To improve agriculture and encourage animal husbandry.Free and compulsory education for all children below 14 years.

Social and Economic Principles

• The State should ensure adequate means of livelihood to its people.

• Fair distribution of Nation’s Wealth.• Equal pay for men and women.• Children to be protected against exploitation.• To ensure right to work, right to education and

right to State assistance in case of unemployment.

• The State is directed to provide a living wage to its people.

• The State should ensure participation of workers in the management of their factories.

General Principles

• According to the 42nd Amendment Act, the government should protect and improve the environment and safe guard the forest and wild life.

• Preserve and Protect the places and things of National importance.

Few More

• Maintain just and honorable relations with the Nations.

• Promote international Peace and Security.

• Foster respect for international law.

• Encourage settlement of disputes peacefully.

Criticism• They are vague and repetitive. (Adequate

means of livelihood, living wage etc.)

• They are not enforceable by any court. They are like empty vessels.

• Article 31-C has made them totally

unclear.

Why to include?

• They highlight the National Objectives. They tell us about the social and economic programme of a modern Welfare State.

• They prescribe that the material source of the country should be used for the common good.

• These principles will pull back the revolutionary and push forward the reactionary.

To Conclude,

• The Directive Principles have to conform to and run as subsidiary to the chapter on Fundamental Rights.

• The Supreme Court says that the general welfare shall prevail over the individual right.

• Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles complement each other.

• “Together not individually, they form the core of the Constitution. They together constitute its true Conscience.”

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