UPSC Prelims 2017 · Question 82 of 99
UPSC Prelims 2017 question on Workers Participation 42nd Amendment
Which principle among the following was added to the Directive Principles of State Policy by the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution?
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Answer: B. Participation of workers in the management of industries
Verdict
The answer is participation of workers in the management of industries. That principle was added by the Forty Second Amendment.
Analysis
The Forty Second Amendment Act of 1976 added four new Directive Principles: securing opportunities for the healthy development of children under Article 39, promoting equal justice and free legal aid under Article 39A, securing the participation of workers in the management of industries under Article 43A, and protecting and improving the environment and safeguarding forests and wildlife under Article 48A. The remaining three options, equal pay for equal work, right to work and education, and living wage and humane conditions, all belong to the original list of 1950.
Source
M. Laxmikanth, Indian Polity, chapter on Directive Principles.
How to crack it
Learn the amendments to Part IV as a short closed list rather than learning Part IV as a whole, since only two amendments ever added Directive Principles: the Forty Second in 1976 with four, and the Forty Fourth in 1978 with one, on minimising inequalities in income under Article 38. Five additions in total, each with an article number, covers every question of this type. Note that Article 48A is the environmental hook UPSC uses most often.