DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY AND FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES
http://download.nos.org/srsec317newE/317EL7.pdf The Directive Principles of State Policy are included in Part IV of the Constitution. Directive Principles of State Policy are in the form of instructions/guidelines to the governments at the center as well as states. The idea of Directive Principles of State Policy has been taken from the Irish Republic. The framers of the Constitution included them with a special purpose of bringing about social and economic equality, in order to provide economic justice and to avoid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people These principles give directions to the state for making laws and policies for the collective good of the people. These Principles are non justiciable and are not enforceable by the Courts of law. But they are nevertheless fundamental to the governance of country. The Directive Principles lay stress on universalisation of education, abolition of child labour and improvement of the status of women. Th