1. The Directive Principles of State Policy are enumerated in the Constitution between which Articles?
2. The framers of the Indian Constitution borrowed the concept of Directive Principles from which Constitution?
3. The Irish Constitution of 1937 had itself borrowed the concept of Directive Principles from which Constitution?
4. Who described the Directive Principles as 'novel features' of the Indian Constitution?
5. Who described the Directive Principles and Fundamental Rights together as the 'Conscience of the Constitution'?
6. Under Article 36, the term 'State' in Part IV has the same meaning as in which Part?
7. The Directive Principles resemble the 'Instrument of Instructions' found in which enactment?
8. The Directive Principles embody the concept of a welfare state as opposed to which concept?
9. Which Article declares that the Directive Principles are fundamental in governance and it is the State's duty to apply them?
10. A law giving effect to a Directive Principle may be treated as 'reasonable' in relation to which two Articles?
11. Which of the following is NOT a category of Directive Principles?
12. Which Article directs the State to minimise inequalities in income, status, facilities and opportunities?
13. Which Article directs the State to secure adequate means of livelihood for all citizens?
14. Which Article directs the State to secure equal pay for equal work for men and women?
15. Article 39 directs the State to prevent concentration of which of the following?
16. Which Article provides for equal justice and free legal aid to the poor?
17. Which Article directs the State to secure the right to work, education, and public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement?
18. Which Article provides for just and humane conditions of work and maternity relief?
19. Which Article directs the State to secure a living wage and decent standard of life for workers?
20. A 'living wage' differs from a 'minimum wage' mainly by additionally covering which of the following?
21. Which Article directs the State to secure participation of workers in the management of industries?
22. Which Article directs the State to raise the level of nutrition, standard of living, and public health?
23. Which Article directs the State to organise village panchayats as units of self-government?
24. Which Article directs the State to promote cottage industries on an individual or co-operative basis in rural areas?
25. Which Article directs the State to promote voluntary formation, autonomous functioning, and democratic control of co-operative societies?
26. Which Article directs the State to promote the educational and economic interests of SCs, STs, and other weaker sections?
27. Which Article directs the State to prohibit the consumption of intoxicating drinks and drugs injurious to health?
28. Which Article directs the State to prohibit the slaughter of cows, calves, and other milch and draught cattle?
29. Which Article directs the State to secure a uniform civil code for all citizens?
30. Which Article provides for early childhood care and education for children until the age of six years?
31. Which Article directs the State to organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines?
32. Which Article directs the State to protect and improve the environment and safeguard forests and wildlife?
33. Which Article directs the State to protect monuments, places and objects of national importance?
34. Which Article directs the State to separate the judiciary from the executive in public services?
35. Which Article directs the State to promote international peace and security and to encourage settlement of international disputes by arbitration?
36. Before the 86th Amendment, Article 45 provided free and compulsory education for children up to what age?
37. Consider the following Directive Principles:
(I) Securing opportunities for healthy development of children (Article 39)
(II) Providing free legal aid to the poor (Article 39A)
(III) Securing participation of workers in management of industries (Article 43A)
Which of the above were added as new Directive Principles by the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976?
38. Who recommended dividing individual rights into justiciable and non-justiciable categories?
39. Consider the following statements regarding the distinction between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles:
(I) Fundamental Rights are negative in nature while Directive Principles are positive
(II) Fundamental Rights are justiciable while Directive Principles are non-justiciable
(III) Fundamental Rights require legislation for implementation while Directive Principles are automatically enforced
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
40. Fundamental Rights aim at establishing which type of democracy, while Directive Principles aim at establishing social and economic democracy?
41. Which of the following correctly describes the sanction behind Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles respectively?
42. If a law is found violative of a Directive Principle, what can the courts do?
43. Who dubbed the Directive Principles as 'pious superfluities' and compared them to a cheque payable only when the bank's resources permit?
44. Which critic described the Directive Principles as 'a veritable dustbin of sentiments'?
45. Who remarked that Part IV of the Constitution "expresses Fabian Socialism without the socialism," criticising the Directive Principles as conservative and rooted in 19th century English political philosophy?
46. K. Santhanam criticised the Directive Principles on the ground that they could lead to constitutional conflict between which of the following pairs?
47. Who compared the Directive Principles to 'new year's resolutions, which are broken on the second of January'?
48. Which critic held the view that the Directive Principles are 'neither properly classified nor logically arranged', mixing unimportant issues with vital economic and social questions?
49. Who described the Directive Principles as the 'life giving provisions of the Constitution' that constitute the stuff of the Constitution and its philosophy of social justice?
50. Which former Chief Justice of India remarked that if all the Directive Principles were fully carried out, the country would be a "heaven on earth"?
51. Ambedkar pointed out the Directive Principles lay down the goal of Indian polity as which of the following, as distinguished from political democracy?
52. Granville Austin opined that the Directive Principles are aimed at furthering the goals of which of the following?
53. According to Setalvad, Directive Principles serve as beacon-lights to courts in exercising which power?
54. In the Champakam Dorairajan case (1951), the Supreme Court ruled that in case of conflict between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles, which would prevail?
55. In the Golaknath case (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that Parliament cannot take away or abridge Fundamental Rights because they are of which nature?
56. Which Amendment Act declared that Parliament has the power to abridge or take away any Fundamental Right by enacting Constitutional Amendment Acts, in reaction to the Golaknath judgment?
57. The 25th Amendment Act, 1971 inserted which new Article into the Constitution?
58. In the Kesavananda Bharati case (1973), the Supreme Court declared which provision of Article 31C unconstitutional?
59. The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976 extended the protection of Article 31C to cover laws implementing which of the following?
60. Article 31 (right to property) was omitted from the Constitution by which Amendment Act?
61. In the Minerva Mills case (1980), the Supreme Court described Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles as being like which of the following?
62. As per the present constitutional position after the Minerva Mills case, which of the following holds true?
63. Consider the following statements regarding the Golaknath case (1967):
(I) It was a Supreme Court judgment
(II) It held that the Fundamental Rights are sacrosanct
(III) It held that Parliament could amend Fundamental Rights to implement Directive Principles
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
64. Which body was established in 1950 to take up the planned development of the country, and was later replaced by NITI Aayog?
65. Which Act established a nation-wide network to provide free legal aid to the poor and to organise lok adalats?
66. Lok adalat, as a statutory forum for conciliatory settlement of disputes, has been given the status of which of the following?
67. Which Amendment Act provided constitutional status and protection to the three-tier panchayati raj system?
68. The 65th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1990 established which commission to protect the interests of SCs and STs?
69. Which Amendment Act conferred constitutional status on the National Commission for Backward Classes?
70. The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019 facilitated reservation for which category?
71. Which Code separated the judiciary from the executive in the public services of the state, taking away judicial powers from executive authorities like the collector and tehsildar?
72. Which Act was enacted to protect monuments, places and objects of national importance?
73. Which Article, found outside Part IV, requires consideration of the claims of SCs and STs in making appointments to services and posts?
74. Which Article, located in Part XVII, directs states to provide instruction in the mother tongue at the primary stage to children of linguistic minority groups?
75. Which Article places a duty on the Union to promote the spread and development of the Hindi language?
