“

INTODUCTION
OF DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLE OF STATE POLICY”:

Dr. Ambedkar
said “The directive principles are like instruments of instructions which
were issued to the Governor in General and Governors of colonies and to those of India
bythe British Government under the 1935 Act under the Draft Constitution. It is propose
d toissue such instructions to the president and governors. The text of these instrument
s of theinstructions shall be found in scheduled IV to the Constitution of India. What are
calleddirective principles is that they are instructions to the Legislature and the Executi
ve. Such
a thing is, to my mind, to be welcomed.”
The Directive Principles commit the State to promote the welfare of the people by affirm
ing social, economic and political justice, aswell as to fight economic inequality. Accordi
ng to the constitution, the government shouldkeep them in mind while framing laws, ev
en though they are non-
justiciable in nature. Theinspiration of Directive Principles of State Policy has been take
n from the Irish Republic.They were inculcated in our Constitution in order to provide e
conomic justice and also toavoid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Therefor
e, no government can affordto ignore them. They are infact, the directives to the future g
overnments to incorporatethem in the decisions and policies to be formulated by them.
The directives were meant to be the fundamental principles which should necessarily b
e made the basis of all executiveand legislative actions that might be taken in future in t
he governance of the country. TheForty-
second Amendment, which came into force in January 1977, attempted to raise thestatu
s of the Directive Principles by stating that no law implementing any of the DirectivePri
nciples could be declared unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated any of theFun
damental Rights. The amendment simultaneously stated that laws prohibiting"antinatio
nal activities" or the formation of "antinational associations" could not beinvalidated be
cause they infringed on any of the Fundamental Rights. It added a newsection to the con
stitution on "Fundamental Duties" that enjoined citizens "to promoteharmony and the s
pirit of common brotherhood among all the people of India,transcending religious, lingu
istic and regional or sectional diversities." However, theamendment reflected a new em
phasis in governing circles on order and discipline tocounteract what some leaders had
come to perceive as the excessively freewheeling styleof Indian democracy. After the Ma
rch 1977 general election ended the control of theCongress (Congress (R) from 1969) o
ver the executive and legislature for the first timesince independence in 1947, the new J
anata-dominated Parliament passed the Forty-thirdAmendment (1977) and 44th
amenfmr.these amendm revoked the
Forty-
second Amendment's provision that Directive Principles take precedence overFundame
ntal Rights and also curbed Parliament's power to legislate against "antinationalactivitie
s.”
. Among the primary duties of the state is the raising of the level of nutritionand the gen
eral standard of living of the people. The Principles expressed the hope thatwithin ten y
ears of the adoption of the Constitution there will be compulsory primaryeducation for c
hildren up to the age of fourteen years. The other provisions of thePrinciples seek equall
y to secure the renovation of Indian society by improving thetechniques of agriculture, h
usbandry, cottage industry, etc. The core of the commitmentlies in the fundamental righ
ts and the directive principles of state policy.

Part IV of the Constitution (Articles 36-

51) provides the Directive Principles of state policy.
These principles may include certain „economic ideals‟ that states may, strive for; certai
n
directions to the legislature and executive intended to show the manner in which the sta
teshould exercise their executive and legislative powers; and certain rights of the citizen
s whichshall not be enforceable like the fundamental rights .It shall be the duty of admin
istrators tofollow these principles both in administration and legislation. The Directive
Principles of
State Policy was described by Dr.Ambedkar as a „novel feature of the constitution‟. Sir I
vorJennings claims that this part of the constitution expresses, „Fabian socialism‟ witho
ut theword „socialism‟.
These principles are directives to the various governments and governmental agencies
to befollowed as fundamental in the governance of the country. It shall be the duty of th
e state toapply these principles in making laws. Thus they place an ideal before the legis
latures ofIndia while they frame new legislation. They lay down a code of conduct for th
eadministrators of India. In short, theDirective Principles enshrines the fundamentals fo
r the realisation of which the state in Indiastands. They guide the path which will lead th
e people of India to achieve the noble ideaswhich the Preamble of the constitution procl
aims: Justice, Liberty and Fraternity. DPSP arenot legally enforceable by any court and t
he state cannot be compelled through the courts toimplement
them. Nevertheless the constitution declares that they are “fundamental in the
governance of the country and that it shall be the duty of the state to apply these princip
les in
making laws”.
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