Constitutional Provisions & Safeguards

ARTICLE 38:State to secure a Social Order for the Promotion of Welfare of the People

1. The State shall 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, shall inform all the institutions of the national life.
2. The State shall, in particular, strive to minimize the inequalities in income, and endeavor to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations.

ARTICLE 39: Certain Principles of Policy to be followed by the State

The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing:

1. that the citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means to livelihood
2. that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good
3. that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment

ARTICLE 43 B: Promotion of Cooperative Societies

The State shall endeavour to promote voluntary formation, autonomous functioning, democratic control and professional management of co-operative societies.