Directive Principles of Our State Policy: Part IV (Articles 36-51) Part-2

Article 43:

              The State shall endeavor to secure, by suitable legislation or economic organisation or in any other way, to all workers agricultural, industrial or otherwise, work, a living wage, conditions of work ensuring a decent standard of life and full enjoyment of leisure and social and cultural opportunities and, in particular, the State shall endeavour to promote cottage industries on an individual or co-operative basis in rural areas.

Article 44:

            The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.

Article 46:

              The State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and in particular, of the scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.

Article 47:

                The State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties and, in particular, the State shall endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption except for medicinal purpose of intoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health.

Article 48:

           The State shall endeavour to organize agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter, of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle.

Article 48A:

           The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country.

Article 49:

            It shall be the obligation of the State to protect every monument or place or object of artistic or historic interest, declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance, from spoliation, disfigurement, destruction, removal, disposal or export, as the case may be.

Article 50:                                                            

             The State shall take steps to separate the judiciary from the executive in the public services of the State.

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