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==Implementation==

There is no need of any constitutional amendment and simple legislation by the Parliament is adequate to implement the Directive Principles as applicable laws per [[swikisource:Constitution of India (2020)/Part XI|Article 245]] as they are already enshrined in the constitution. The State has made few efforts till now to implement the '''Directive Principles'''.

The Programme of Universalisation of Elementary Education and the [[Five-Year Plans of India|five-year plans]] has been accorded the highest priority in order to provide free [[Education in India|education]] to all children up to the age of 14 years. [[List of amendments of the Constitution of India|The 86th constitutional amendment]] of 2002 inserted a new article, Article 21-A, into the Constitution, that seeks to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged 6 to 14 years.<ref name="86amact"/> Welfare schemes for the weaker sections are being implemented both by the Central and State governments. These include programmes such as boys' and girls' [[hostel]]s for [[Scheduled Castes and Tribes|scheduled castes]]' or [[scheduled tribes]]' students.<ref name="pgA44">Tayal, B.B. & Jacob, A. (2005), ''Indian History, World Developments and Civics'', pg. A-44</ref> The year 1990–1991 was declared as the "Year of Social Justice" in the memory of [[B.R. Ambedkar]].<ref>{{cite web

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}}</ref> India has also been in favour of nuclear disarmament.<ref name="pgA45"/>

Per [[swikisource:Constitution of India (2020)/Part IV|Article 38 (1)]], [[Justice delayed is justice denied|prompt rendering of the justice]] by courts is part of animating judiciary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rule of law index, 2016|url=http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/|access-date=3 June 2017|archive-date=29 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429071718/http://data.worldjusticeproject.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rendering prompt justice is the foremost purpose of the constitution as enshrined in the [[Preamble to the Constitution of India|Preamble to the constitution]] also.<ref name= animated/> However the judiciary is failing dismally in this respect by causing inordinate delay considering time of rendering justice in a case arbitrarily is its constitutional liberty.<ref>{{cite news|title=What causes judicial delay? Judgements diluting time frames in Code of Civil Procedure worsen the problem of adjournments|newspaper=The Times of India |date=25 August 2016|url=http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/what-causes-judicial-delay-judgments-diluting-timeframes-in-code-of-civil-procedure-worsen-the-problem-of-adjournments/|access-date=13 September 2017 |last1=Ranjan |first1=Brajesh }}</ref>

== Amendments ==