A Study of Constitutional Guidelines with Reference to Social Justice and Gender Egalitarianism in India

Author(s): Dr. Bharati S Dodamani

Abstract:

Social Justice as a concept in India is related most specifically with equal distribution of rights without discrimination of gender, caste, creed or economic status. The purpose of social justice is to maintain or to restore equilibrium in the society and to envisage equal treatment of equal persons in equal or essentially equal circumstances. In the Indian Constitution it finds place significantly in the Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy. The leaders of India’s freedom movement visualized that in the new dispensation following political freedom, the people should have the fullest opportunity for advancement in the social and economic spheres and that the state should make suitable provisions for ensuring such process. The Fundamental Rights envisaged in Part III of the Constitution of India has a tremendous contribution in rendering social justice to the country at large and till date it thrives to maintain its constitutional goal, in guiding legislation aimed at social welfare for the common good and common interest of the people. Social justice is the keystone of the Indian Constitution. One facet of it is gender equality, which is a composite concept; it is a human right of women. Gender equality includes protection from sexual harassment and right to work with dignity, which is a universally recognized basic human right.

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