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Comment: Fundamental Duties under Article 51A of the Constitution of India.

  • UPSC 2005, 2004
  • 20 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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Part IVA is the only chapter of the Constitution addressed to the citizen rather than the State. Article 51A was inserted by the 42nd Amendment (1976) on the advice of the Swaran Singh Committee, set up during the Emergency; it listed ten duties, and the 86th Amendment (2002) added an eleventh. Unenforceable by design, the…

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