PART IV
DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY
39. Certain principles of policy
to be followed by the State.-
The State shall, in particular, direct
its policy towards securing-
(a) that the citizens, men and women equally,
have the right to an adequate means of livelihood;
(b) that the ownership
and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed
as best to subserve the common good;
(c) that the operation of the economic
system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production
to the common detriment;
(d) that there is equal pay for equal work for
both men and women;
(e) that the health and strength of workers, men and
women, and the tender age of children are not abused and that citizens
are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their
age or strength; _40[
(f) that children are given opportunities and facilities
to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity
and that childhood and youth are protected against exploitation and against
moral and material abandonment.]
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