Features Of Directive Principles Of State Policy

DPSPs were made for the social and economic welfare of the people of state, and oblige the Government for implementing them in a fairer manner and to uphold the ideals of Constitution of India. Directive Principles necessitate the state.

They are not justiciable, which implies that they cannot be carried out by the courts.
They are, nonetheless, vital to the country’s government, and it is the State’s responsibility to apply them while creating laws.
They rest on constitutionally guaranteed socioeconomic rights like education, employment, and property rights.
They aim to direct future laws rather than merely state principles for current fulfillment.
The primary goal of the directive principles is to set the conditions under which citizens can live a happy life.
They lay the groundwork for the country’s future legislature.

Importance of DPSP:

Socio-economic rights: Fundamental rights provide for political rights. DPSP supplement them by providing for social and economic rights.
Sustainable development: DPSP are the principles of a welfare state in India. DPSPs aim to balance economic progress with environmental sustainability and social equity, fostering a harmonious society.
Inequalities: Liberalization and globalization led to rising inequalities; India’s top 1% owns 40% of national wealth, per Oxfam report. As society shifted to market economy, state must use tax, subsidies, and welfare schemes to diminish resulting inequalities.
Accountability: DPSPs enable citizens to hold government accountable for policy implementation, like workplace equality and minimum wages.
Fair market: Globalization is based upon competition and monopolistic tendencies in the market. DPSP is important to provide a laissez faire business environment to industries.
Human rights: Liberalisation and capitalism has scant regards to the human work environment, wages, gender sensitivity and labour concerns. DPSP are relevant to provide a humane work milieu, equal wages for equal work and increase quality of standard of living of workers. It also provides for participation of workers in management of industries for better harmonisation between workers interest and industrial interest.
Human capital: Modern industries require skilled labor. DPSP requires government to provide free, quality primary education and improved public health services.
Environment: Further it obliges the government to protect and improve the environment and safeguard forest and wildlife in the era of indiscriminate exploitation and deforestation based globalization.
Women rights: Liberalisation and globalisation has led to women empowerment. DPSP put an onus on the state to work towards women education, equal opportunity, equal wages, uniform civil code etc. that would further enhance women rights. Recent triple talaq act was in this direction.