SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 15 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 17 of 100

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The concept of Uniform Civil Code is a part of which category of principles in the Indian Constitution?

(a)Fundamental Rights
(b)Fundamental Duties
(c)Directive Principles of State Policy
(d)Preamble objectives

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Article 44 reads: "The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India."

Article 44 sits in Part IV, the Directive Principles of State Policy (Articles 36 to 51). The word endeavour is the tell: a goal the State works towards, not a right a citizen can enforce → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Fundamental Rights — Fundamental Rights are in Part III (Articles 12 to 35) and can be enforced in court. A uniform civil code is not a right anyone can sue for. It is a goal set for the State.
(b)
Fundamental Duties — Fundamental Duties are in Article 51A, Part IVA, and they bind citizens, not the State. The civil code clause, Article 44, is a direction to the State.
(d)
Preamble objectives — The Preamble names justice, liberty, equality and fraternity as aims and says nothing about a civil code. The civil code appears in Article 44 among the Directive Principles.

Concept

The Directive Principles (Part IV, Articles 36 to 51) are instructions to the State on how to govern.

Article 37 makes them non-justiciable: no court can enforce them, yet they are fundamental in the governance of the country, and the State must apply them in making laws.

A uniform civil code would put marriage, divorce, inheritance and adoption under one law for all citizens, in place of separate religious personal laws. Article 44 asks the State to work towards it.

Key facts

Article 44 directs the State to endeavour to secure a uniform civil code for citizens throughout India.
The Directive Principles occupy Part IV of the Constitution, Articles 36 to 51.
Article 37 makes the Directive Principles unenforceable in court but fundamental in governance.
Article 44 was debated in the Constituent Assembly as draft Article 35, on 23 November 1948.

Study next

Article 37 and the non-justiciable character of the Directive PrinciplesNeighbouring Directive Principles: Article 40 on village panchayats and Article 43 on cottage industriesFundamental Duties in Article 51A, added by the 42nd Amendment

Common traps

Picking Fundamental Rights because a civil code sounds like a citizens' entitlement, when Article 44 is a direction to the State.
Placing Fundamental Duties in Part IV, when they sit in Part IVA, Article 51A.

Part IV is asked by its article range at 26 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.10 and by its non-justiciability at 12 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.25. At 19 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.12, Article 44 is a wrong option beside Article 43 on cottage industries.

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