{"id":1388,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/critically-examine-the-provisions-made-in-the-constitution-for-upsc-psir-2016-2601\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:25","slug":"critically-examine-the-provisions-made-in-the-constitution-for-upsc-psir-2016-2601","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/critically-examine-the-provisions-made-in-the-constitution-for-upsc-psir-2016-2601\/","title":{"rendered":"Critically examine the provisions made in the Constitution for the protection of Environment."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\u00a9 Constitution offers no single environmental provision \u2192 protects through an enabling spread routes of duties, directives and rights \u2192 deepened by the courts. &amp;3 Environmental protection sits in the Constitution as an enabling framework \u2192 Directive Principles + Fundamental Duty + judicially expanded Article 21 \u2192 both strength and limits flow from this.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Directive Principles set the State\u2019s duty (Art 48-A environment\/forests\/wildlife; Art 47 public ewe = =6health; Art 48 agriculture-sustainability).. Fundamental Duty Art 51-A(g) makes the citizen responsible \u2192 enforceable core Article 21 \u2192 Supreme Court reads in a right to a healthy, pollution- free environment.. Dehradun Quarrying + M. C. Mehta strengthen the environmental meaning of life and liberty \u2192 PIL via Articles 32 &amp; 226 \u2192 statutory backing (Environment Protection Act, Forest Conservation Act).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Counter- Provisions enabling, not self-executing.. Directive Principles + citizen duty non-justiciable.. force depends on judicial activism \u2192 central limitation is implementation (disasters, dilution of norms, weak enforcement) \u2014. promise stays ahead of practice.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">| RI | Framework enabling by design \u2192 limited by non-enforceable directives and the enforcement routes gap \u2192 promise runs ahead of practice. | R2 | Article 21 jurisprudence gives the framework real teeth.. but constitutional protection is only as strong as its enforcement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[42],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[67],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1388","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-42","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-social-movements","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1388\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}