Freebies

  • October 10, 2022
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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Freebies

Subject :Polity

Context: Freebies debate

At present no law prohibit political parties from announcing freebies.

Such programmes further the Directive Principles of State Policy under Part IV of the Constitution.

  • Article 36 of the Constitution encourages the state to secure a just social order.
  • Article 39 says that the state shall make efforts to reduce the concentration of wealth and promote the common good

Directive Principles of State Policy

DPSP (Directive Principles of State Policy) enumerated in Part IV of the constitution. It covers the Articles from 36 to 51.

The framers of the constitution borrowed this idea from the Irish Constitution.

The state should keep in mind all the DPSP before formulating any policy or law for the country.

  • DPSPs are non-justiciable.
  • DPSPs embody welfare state.
  • DPSPs seek to establish social and economic democracy
  • Article 38 to 51 contains all the different DPSP’s.
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