Previous Year Question

The Directive Principles of State Policy guide the State towards establishing a welfare-oriented social order based on social and economic justice.

Article 38(1) directs the State to secure and protect a social order in which social, economic and political justice informs all institutions of national life. Article 38(2) further directs the State to minimise inequalities in income and endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities.

Similarly, Article 39 directs the State to formulate its policies so that men and women equally have the right to adequate means of livelihood, material resources of the community are distributed to serve the common good, the economic system does not result in harmful concentration of wealth and means of production, and men and women receive equal pay for equal work.

Important fact: The Preamble also declares social, economic and political justice as constitutional objectives for all citizens, while the DPSPs provide detailed directions for advancing these objectives through governance and State policy.