{"id":32792,"date":"2018-10-29T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32792"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:57:25","slug":"the-scope-of-constitutional-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-scope-of-constitutional-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"The scope of constitutional morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/the-scope-of-constitutional-morality\/article25115335.ece\">The scope of constitutional morality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kalpana Kannabiran, Professor and Director, has talked about abolition of untouchability in all its forms including manual scavenging.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>As per the Author, abolition of untouchability including Manual Scavenging remains an unrealized constitutional rights.<\/li>\n<li>Author says, there are no visible pathways to freedom in this malign caste society unless we realize untouchability is a crime under the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 17 of the Constitution of India states<\/strong>: \u201cUntouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why Author has raised concern:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Steady rise in deaths of manual scavengers.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of legal aid and advice programmes to address exploitative conditions of work imposed upon the scavengers and sweepers.<\/li>\n<li>Clear violation of fundamental rights that strikes at the root of their existence.<\/li>\n<li>There is neither accountability nor due diligence on the part of the state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>According to the Author, sanction for manual scavenging lies at the heart of majoritarian mindsets and structures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outgoing Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra set out four important corners of the Constitution which needs to be guaranteed to every citizen<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual autonomy and liberty<\/li>\n<li>Equality without discrimination<\/li>\n<li>Recognition of identity with dignity<\/li>\n<li>Right to privacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Justice Misra observes, \u201cthe sustenance of fundamental rights does not require majoritarian sanction\u201d and call for constitutional-procedural deliberation on the \u201cprogressive realization of rights\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If decriminalizing \u201cunnatural\u201d sex is one of the \u201cnecessary steps on the road to democracy\u201d, abolition of untouchability in all its forms remains an unrealized constitutional right.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scope of constitutional morality Article: Kalpana Kannabiran, Professor and Director, has talked about abolition of untouchability in all its forms including manual scavenging. Important Analysis: As per the Author, abolition of untouchability including Manual Scavenging remains an unrealized constitutional rights. Author says, there are no visible pathways to freedom in this malign caste society&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-scope-of-constitutional-morality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The scope of constitutional morality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704767315},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}