{"id":112925,"date":"2021-06-16T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=112925"},"modified":"2021-06-19T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T09:25:09","slug":"difference-between-fundamental-rights-and-dpspdirective-principles-of-state-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/difference-between-fundamental-rights-and-dpspdirective-principles-of-state-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between Fundamental Rights and DPSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding of both Fundamental Rights and DPSP is crucial from UPSC perspective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While Fundamental Rights are the rights which are fundamental to the all-round development of an individual, DPSP denotes the <strong>ideals that the State should keep in mind<\/strong> while formulating policies and enacting laws. These are the <strong>constitutional instructions or recommendations<\/strong> to the State in legislative, executive and administrative matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite many similarities between Fundamental Rights and DPSP, there are certain differences also. In this article, we will discuss key differences between them.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.2399%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 48.0625%; background: #222222; color: #ffffff;\" width=\"312\">\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\"><strong>Fundamental Rights<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 70.4535%; background: #222222; color: #ffffff;\" width=\"312\">\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\"><strong>DPSP\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They are enumerated in <strong>Part III<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They are enumerated in <strong>Part IV<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Covered under <strong>Articles 12 to 35\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Covered under <strong>Articles 36 to 51<\/strong> .<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Borrowed from US Constitution (Bill of Rights)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Borrowed from the <strong>Irish Constitution.<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They are <strong>justiciable in nature<\/strong> i.e.; they are legally enforceable in the court of law in case of their violation.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They are <strong>non-justiciable<\/strong> in nature i.e.; they are not legally enforceable in the court of law.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They promote the ideal of <strong>political democracy<\/strong>.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They promote the ideal of <strong>social and economic democracy<\/strong>.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They promote the <strong>welfare of the individual<\/strong>.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They promote the <strong>welfare of the community.<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Almost all Fundamental Rights, excluding few like Right to Education etc, <strong>do not require any legislation for their implementation<\/strong>. They are automatically enforced.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">DPSP&#8217;s <strong>require legislation for their implementation<\/strong>. They are not automatically enforced.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These are <strong>negative<\/strong> as they <strong>restrict<\/strong> the power of the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These are <strong>positive<\/strong> as they require the State to take certain steps.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 48.0625%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Judiciary can declare a law as <strong>unconstitutional and invalid<\/strong> if it <strong>violates<\/strong> the Fundamental Rights.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.4535%;\" width=\"312\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The courts cannot declare a law violative of any of the Directive Principles as unconstitutional and invalid. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">However, they can uphold the validity of a law on the ground that it was enacted to give effect to a directive<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hope now you are clear about the difference between Fundamental rights and DPSP.<\/p>\n<p>Till next time.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #f7f2f2;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/difference-between-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other articles in the difference between series<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding of both Fundamental Rights and DPSP is crucial from UPSC perspective. While Fundamental Rights are the rights which are fundamental to the all-round development of an individual, DPSP denotes the ideals that the State should keep in mind while formulating policies and enacting laws. These are the constitutional instructions or recommendations to the State&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/difference-between-fundamental-rights-and-dpspdirective-principles-of-state-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Difference between Fundamental Rights and DPSP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}