Directive Principles Of State policy DPSP

✅ The constitution of India aims to establish not only political democracy but 

also socioeconomic justice to the people to establish a welfare state. 

✅These provisions are given in Part IV of Indian Constitution. 

✅ Directive Principles of state policy are in the form of instructions to the governments at the centre as well as states. 

✅Though these principles are non justiciable, they are fundamental in the governance of the country. 

✅ The idea of the Directive Principles of State Policy has been taken from the 

Irish Republic .

✅The Directive Principles of State policy were incorporated in our constitution in order to provide economic justice and to avoid concentration of wealth in the hands of few people. 

✅ The constitution covers from Article 36 to 51 as Directive Principles of State 

Policy. 

✅They are unique blend of socialistic, liberal, democratic and Gandhian Principles. 

✅ They describe as the ‘conscience of the constitution’. 

✅ In the “State of Tamil Nadu etc. Vs L.Abu Kavur Bai” case in 1984 , the Supreme court held that although directive principles of State Policy are not enforceable, yet the court should not avoid them