In this article you will learn about the Classification of Directive Principles.
Classification of Directive Principles
Part IV lists several Directive Principles from Articles 36 to 51. However, these have been neither classified nor arranged systematically.
But for the sake of convenience the scholars usually classified these into four main categories :
1. Socialistic Principles
2. Gandhian Principles
3. Liberal Principles
4. General Principles
1. Socialistic Directive Principles or Socio-Economic Directive Principles
This category includes those Directive Principles which aim at securing a welfare socialist state in India. Most of the socialistic principles are contained in Article 38, 39, 41, 42 and 43.
- The State shall try to secure the welfare of the people by securing a social order characterised by Justice - social, economic and political.
- The State shall provide adequate means of livelihood to all citizens, men as well as women.
- To secure equitable distribution of material resources of the community with a view to ensure common good.
- To operate the economic system in such a way as to prevent the concentration of wealth and means of production.
- To provide equal pay for equal work for both men and women.
- To provide the health and strength of the workers, men and women, to protect the children from entering avocations unsuited to their age or strength.
- To protect children and youth from exploitation and moral and material abandonment.
- To secure the right to work, to education and to public assistance in case of unemployment, sickness, old age and disability and in other cases of undesired want.
- To make provisions for securing just and humane conditions of work, and for maternity relief.
- To secure to all workers, work, a living wage, conditions of work ensuring a decent standard of life, and full enjoyment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities.
- To secure participation of workers in the management of industries.
2. Gandhian Directive Principles
- To organise Village Panchayats and endow them with adequate powers and authority.
- To promote cottage industries on an individual or cooperative basis in rural areas.
- To promote the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people and in particular of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes and to protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.
- To bring about prohibition of the consumption of intoxicating drinks and drugs that are injurious to health.
- To organise agriculture and animal husbandry and to take steps for preserving and improving the breeds and prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milk and draught cattle.
3. Liberal Directive Principles
- To secure a uniform civil code for Indians.
- To provide for free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14 years within 10 years.
- To secure the separation of judiciary from the executive.
- To provide free legal aid to the poor so that justice is not denied to any citizen because of poverty.
By 86th amendment of the constitution directive principle given under article 45 was amended to make the state “Endeavour to provide early childhood care and education for all children until they complete 6 years of age.”
4. General Directive Principles
- To protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country.
- To protect every monument or place or object of artistic or historic interest from spoliation, disfigurement, destruction, removal, disposal or export.
- To promote international peace and security.
- To maintain just and honourable relations between nations.
- To foster respect for international law and treaty obligations.
- To encourage a settlement of international disputes by arbitration.
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