{"id":200514,"date":"2022-08-18T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200514"},"modified":"2022-08-18T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:53:50","slug":"voters-prefer-to-earn-a-dignified-earning-over-freebies-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voters-prefer-to-earn-a-dignified-earning-over-freebies-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters prefer to earn a dignified earning over freebies: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cVoters prefer to earn a dignified earning over freebies: Supreme Court\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 18th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court while hearing a petition to curb the practice of offering freebies has said that the term<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cfreebie&#8221; should not be confused with genuine welfare measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the Supreme Court&#8217;s views on Freebies?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><b>Freebies vs Welfare Measures<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term \u201cfreebie&#8221; should not be confused with genuine welfare measures. There is a distinctive difference between television sets, consumer electronics and welfarist offers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mgnrega-issues-and-significance-explained-pointwise\/\">MGNREGA<\/a><\/strong> offered dignified earnings and also created public assets in rural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, voters, if given a chance, will prefer to earn dignified earnings through welfare schemes. Moreover, there are also instances of parties not being elected despite their promises.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-freebies-debate\/\">The \u2018freebies\u2019 debate<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>Constitution on welfare measures<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 38 of the Constitution mandates that States should ensure the welfare of the people, minimize inequalities in income and endeavour 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, the court observed that a political party or an individual cannot be prevented from making promises that are aimed at fulfilling this constitutional mandate.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 99.8647%;\"><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/freebies-against-democracy-but-legislation-against-them-not-advisable-sc\/\">Freebies against democracy but legislation against them not advisable: SC<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cVoters prefer to earn a dignified earning over freebies: Supreme Court\u201d published in The Hindu on 18th August 2022. What is the News? The Supreme Court while hearing a petition to curb the practice of offering freebies has said that the term \u201cfreebie&#8221; should not be confused&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/voters-prefer-to-earn-a-dignified-earning-over-freebies-supreme-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voters prefer to earn a dignified earning over freebies: Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-200514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704842174},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}