Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Polity and Constitution

Consider a Directive Principle with the following characteristics:

  • It was not part of the original constitutional text.
  • It was inserted by the Ninety-seventh Constitutional Amendment.
  • It is conventionally placed among the Gandhian principles.
  • Unlike Article 43A, it concerns autonomous functioning and democratic control of an institutional form rather than workers’ participation in industrial management.

Which one of the following is the Directive Principle described above?

  1. Article 43B
  2. Article 43A
  3. Article 43
  4. Article 40
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