Q.8 What were the recommendations of the Nehru Report?
Nehru Report, The Constitution of India aims to establish
not only political democracy but also socio-economic justice to the people to
establish a welfare state. With this purpose in mind, our Constitution lays
down desirable principle and guidelines in Part IV known as the Directive
Principle of State Policy.
Nehru Report, Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP)
are in the form of instructions/guidelines to the governments at the centre as
well as states. Though these principles are non-justiciable, they are
fundamental in the governance of the country. The idea of Directive Principles
of State Policy has been taken from the Irish Republic. They were incorporated
in our Constitution in order to provide economic justice and to avoid
concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people. Nehru Report,Therefore,
no government can afford to ignore them. They are in fact, the directives to
the future governments to incorporate them in the decisions and policies to be
formulated by them.
