Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Polity and Constitution

The Constitution-makers considered that India lacked sufficient financial resources to implement every Directive Principle immediately. They also recognised the country’s diversity and backwardness and wished to leave the State free to decide the order, time, place and manner of implementation.

Which one of the following conclusions follows most appropriately?

  1. The Constitution adopted flexible and politically accountable implementation rather than immediate judicial compulsion
  2. The Directive Principles were regarded as constitutionally unimportant declarations
  3. Courts were expected to determine the sequence in which every Directive Principle should be implemented
  4. Each Directive Principle becomes enforceable automatically when the government acquires sufficient financial resources
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