Important Directive Principles :
To be specific, the important Directive Principles are enumerated below:
(a) State to secure a social order for the promotion of welfare of the people:
(1) The State must strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political should inform all the institutions of the national life (Article 38).
(2) The State shall, in particular, strive to minimise the inequalities in income and endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities, and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also among groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations. (introduced by Constitution 44th Amendment Act).
(b) Certain principles of policy to be followed by the State. The State, particularly, must direct its policy towards securing:
(i) that the citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood;
(ii) that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common goods;
(iii) that the operation of the economic systems does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment;
(iv) equal pay for equal work for both men and women;
(v) that the health and strength of workers and children is not abused and citizens are not forced by the economic necessity to enter avocation unsuited to their age or strength;
(vi) that childhood, and youth are protected against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment (Article 39).
(bb) The State shall secure that the operation of legal system promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall, in particular provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities (Article 39A).
(c) The State must take steps to organise the Village Panchayats and enable them to function as units of self-government (Article 40).
(d) Within the limits of economic capacity and development the State must make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in case of unemployment, old age, etc. (Article 41).
(e) Provision must be made for just and humane conditions of work and for maternity relief (Article 42).
(f) The State must endeavour to secure living wage and good standard of life to all types of workers and must endeavour to promote cottage industries on an individual of co-operative basis in rural areas (Article 43).
(ff) The State take steps, by suitable legislation or in any other way, to secure the participation of workers in the management of undertakings, establishments or other organisations engaged in any industry (Article 43A).
(g) The State must endeavour to provide a uniform civil code for all Indian citizens (Article 44).
(h) Provision for free and compulsory education for all children upto the age of fourteen years (Article 45).
(i) The State must promote the educational and economic interests of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections (Article 46).
(j) The State must regard it one of its primary duties to raise the level of nutritional and the standard of living and to improve public health and in particular it must endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption, except for medicinal purposes, in intoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health (Article 47).
(k) The State must organise agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and improve the breeds and prohibit the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle (Article 48).
(kk) The State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wild life of the country (Article 48A).
(l) Protection of monuments and places and objects of national importance is obligatory upon the State (Article 49).
(m) The State must separate executive from judiciary in the public services of the State (Article 50).
(n) In international matters the State must endeavour to promote peace and security, maintain just and honourable relations in respect of international law between nations, treaty obligations and encourage settlement of international disputes by arbitration (Article 51).