Part. IV—Directive Principles of State Policy.—Arts. 43–49.
Living wage,
etc. for workers.43. The State shall endeavour 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.
Uniform civil code
for the citizens.44. The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.
Provision for free
and compulsory
education for
children.
45. The State shall endeavour to provide, within a period and compulsory of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution, for free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years.
Promotion of edu
cational and
economic inter-
ests of Scheduled
Castes, Schedul-
ed Tribes and
other weaker
sections.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.
Duty of the State
to raise the level
of nutrition and
the standard of
living and to
improve public
health.
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 purposes of intoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health.
Disation of
agriculture and
animal husbandry.48. The State shall endeavour to organise 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.
Protection of
monuments and
places and
nationality
49. It shall be the obligation of the State to protect every monument or place or object of artistic or historic interest, [१][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.
- ↑ Subs. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 27, for "declared by Parliament by law".
