{"id":365932,"date":"2026-06-24T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=365932"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:47:33","slug":"right-to-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Supreme Court in a judgment, declared right to walk on demarcated and well-maintained footpaths a fundamental right which has priority over movement by motorized vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Right to Walk<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fdel1-3.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.99422-6\/725860768_895768133541877_8568093022814015892_n.png?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&amp;cstp=mx1080x1440&amp;ctp=p526x296&amp;_nc_cat=111&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_ohc=KWECgpEvbpIQ7kNvwEXMnAW&amp;_nc_oc=AdqDp4tr08tVVJH_B-rD4PJ9xSXhAJdkFdNLJ75Tq9YC2G06eVAlPLaw3nzqMnH5RjUI-sF4uQAazFwGlr8HW1Dm&amp;_nc_zt=14&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fdel1-3.fna&amp;_nc_gid=6LuJ3PiaNRVgXWBgB1Ucag&amp;_nc_ss=7b289&amp;oh=00_Af83LFuysUGljLv_Xdb1vLA4WEfs9a8RmwZiRqUn03RFFQ&amp;oe=6A4161D8\" alt=\"right to walk \" width=\"294\" height=\"392\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: IE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court\u00a0 ruled that the <strong>right to walk on a demarcated footpath is a fundamental right.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rights under:<\/strong> It is a <strong>fundamental<\/strong> <strong>right<\/strong> under <strong>right to movement guaranteed under<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-191\/\"> Article 19 (1) (d)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-21\/\">Article 21- Right to life and liberty.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Supreme Court Ruling:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court held that a citizen\u2019s fundamental right to walk on a <strong>demarcated footpath is primary and shall have priority over movement by motorised vehicles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It held that <strong>this fundamental right\u00a0 has a correlative duty<\/strong> and <strong>if the road exists, there is a duty to ensure that there are demarcated and well-maintained footpaths<\/strong> for walkers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Responsible bodies: Urban development authorities, municipal corporations, municipalities, and panchayats<\/strong> are responsible for providing safe footpaths.\n<ul>\n<li>They<strong> must mark, build, maintain, and protect footpaths and other facilities for pedestrians<\/strong> because walking is an essential part of daily life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Court suggested <strong>creating an independent regulatory body<\/strong> to effectuate the<strong> fundamental right to walk on demarcated footpaths.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such a <strong>regulator will maintain institutional integrity<\/strong> by taking independent and objective decisions without governmental or industrial control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Supreme Court in a judgment, declared right to walk on demarcated and well-maintained footpaths a fundamental right which has priority over movement by motorized vehicles. About Right to Walk The Supreme Court\u00a0 ruled that the right to walk on a demarcated footpath is a fundamental right. Rights under: It is a fundamental right&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-to-walk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right to Walk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-365932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365932","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}