SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 10 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 10 September 2026.

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Which of the following are enumerated in Part IV of the Indian Constitution, from Articles 36 to 51?

(a)Directive Principles of State Policy
(b)Fundamental Rights
(c)the Union
(d)Fundamental Duties

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, carries the Directive Principles of State Policy.

Hold the block by its boundaries. Part III, Articles 12 to 35, is Fundamental Rights. Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, is the Directive Principles. Part IV-A, Article 51A, is the Fundamental Duties.

The article range printed in the stem settles the item on its own — option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Fundamental Rights — Fundamental Rights occupy Part III, Articles 12 to 35 — the block immediately before the one the stem describes, and enforceable in court under Article 32.
(c)
the Union — The Union is Part V, Articles 52 to 151, covering the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Comptroller and Auditor General.
(d)
Fundamental Duties — Fundamental Duties sit in Part IV-A at Article 51A, inserted by the 42nd Amendment in 1976. That is a single article, not a range of sixteen.

Concept

The Constitution is asked by its parts, and a part-to-subject map is among the cheapest marks in polity.

Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, holds the Directive Principles: instructions to the State, borrowed from the Constitution of Ireland.

Article 37 states their status exactly — the provisions are not enforceable by any court, yet are fundamental in the governance of the country, and it is the duty of the State to apply them in making laws.

That non-enforceability is what separates them from Fundamental Rights, which are enforceable under Article 32.

The stem hands you the article range as well as the part number, so the item is decidable even if one of the two has slipped. Ranges and part numbers are two independent handles on the same fact.

Key facts

Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, contains the Directive Principles of State Policy.
Article 37 makes the Directive Principles non-justiciable but fundamental in the governance of the country.
The Directive Principles were borrowed from the Constitution of Ireland.
Fundamental Duties were added as Part IV-A, Article 51A, by the 42nd Amendment in 1976.

Study next

Part-to-subject map of the Constitution, with the article range of each partArticle 37 and the non-justiciability of the Directive PrinciplesThe 42nd Amendment and what it added to Parts IV and IV-A

Common traps

Confusing Part IV with Part IV-A. The Duties are a single article, 51A.
Assuming the Directive Principles are enforceable because Article 37 calls them fundamental.

Part-and-article questions run right through General Awareness.

Part V was keyed for the Vice-President's election at Q.18 of this section and Articles 168 to 212 in Part VI for the State Legislature at Q.23, while the Irish source of the Directive Principles was asked on 13 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.5.

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