The government of which of the following states created a draft policy in 2022 for senior citizens on the basis of article 41, which aims to form a directorate for the welfare of senior citizens?

Correct — D. The policy described is Tamil Nadu's draft State Policy on Senior Citizens of 2022.

Its constitutional peg is Article 41, which directs the State to make effective provision for public assistance in old age.

Its administrative proposal is a separate Directorate for the Welfare of Senior Citizens, so that elderly welfare has an arm of its own rather than sitting inside a wider department.

That is how a Directive Principle usually surfaces: not as a right anyone can sue on, but as the stated basis for a policy a government chooses to frame.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Karnataka — Karnataka is not the state behind this draft. The 2022 draft built on Article 41, with a proposed Directorate for the Welfare of Senior Citizens, is Tamil Nadu's.
• (b)
  Kerala — Kerala is the tempting answer, because it is the state most associated with an ageing population. But the draft policy the stem describes is Tamil Nadu's.
• (c)
  Telangana — Telangana had no part in this draft. None of the stem's three markers — 2022, Article 41, a proposed directorate — belongs to it.

Article 41 sits in the Directive Principles.

It says the State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance.

The cases it names are unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.

Because it is non-justiciable, it works exactly as it does here — as the constitutional reason a government gives for a policy, not as a claim enforceable in court.

At the national level the field is held by the National Policy on Older Persons, 1999 and the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007.

Key facts

• Article 41 directs the State to make effective provision for public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.
• Tamil Nadu's 2022 draft policy for senior citizens is framed on Article 41 and proposes a Directorate for the Welfare of Senior Citizens.
• The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 is the central law on maintenance of elderly parents.
• The National Policy on Older Persons was adopted in 1999.

Common traps

• Answering Kerala because it is the state you associate with an ageing population. The stem asks whose draft policy this is.
• Guessing the article. Old age and public assistance is Article 41, not Article 39 or 47.

No directly related past PYQ was found.