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Comment on the relevance of the Directive Principles of State Policy in an era of liberalization and globalization.

  • UPSC 2019, 2012
  • 15 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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Part IV (Articles 36–51) blends socialist, Gandhian and liberal directives written for a state expected to own and allocate. The 1991 reforms, which dismantled licensing and invited private and foreign capital, seemed to leave that design stranded. Yet the directives have been reinterpreted rather than retired: where the state withdraws from production, Part IV marks…

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