**The Importance of Fundamental Duties in the Indian Constitution**

The Indian Constitution, as outlined in the Preamble and various Articles, emphasizes the importance of fundamental rights and freedoms for its citizens. However, it also acknowledges that with these rights come certain duties and responsibilities towards the nation and society. The 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 added two new fundamental duties to the Constitution, which are now part of our civic obligations as Indian citizens.

**Avoiding Harm to the Nation**

One of the fundamental duties is to avoid actions that can harm the nation or its unity. This includes respecting the national flag and national anthem, cherishing the noble ideals inspired by the national freedom struggle, and upholding and protecting the integrity of India. These words are not just empty phrases; they represent a deep commitment to the values and principles that our country was founded upon.

**Upholding National Unity**

Another fundamental duty is to promote harmony, feeling of oneness, brotherhood, linguistic, religious, and cultural dignity among all people. This means recognizing the diversity of our nation and working towards a sense of unity and inclusivity. It also involves preserving the rich heritage of our Constitution and community culture.

**Protecting the Natural Environment**

We also have a duty to protect the natural environment, including forests, lakes, rivers, wildlife, and other ecosystems that are essential to our planet's well-being. This includes efforts to conserve and preserve these natural resources for future generations.

**Developing Scientific Temper and Humanism**

Another fundamental duty is to develop scientific temper, humanism, and a spirit of inquiry into the forms of life. This means cultivating critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity in ourselves and others. It also involves safeguarding public property and not damaging it carelessly.

**Striving for Excellence**

Finally, we have a duty to strive for excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activities. This means continuously seeking to improve our skills, knowledge, and performance, both individually and collectively as a nation. It also involves promoting economic development that benefits ourselves and the nation as a whole.

**Understanding Child Labor**

Child labor, on the other hand, refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially, and morally damaging to children. As citizens of India, we have a duty to ensure that our children are not exploited or forced into labor. The Constitution has made education a fundamental right, which includes the right to compulsory education for all children between the ages of 6 and 14.

**The Right to Constitutional Remedies**

We also have the right to constitutional remedies, including the right to habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari, and other legal measures that can help us seek justice and redress when our rights are violated. These rights are essential for ensuring that our fundamental rights are protected and upheld.

**Directive Principles of State Policy**

The Constitution also sets out directive principles of state policy, which provide a framework for the nation's development and progress. These principles include social, economic, and cultural objectives that aim to promote the well-being of all citizens.

**Fundamental Duties: A Call to Action**

In conclusion, our fundamental duties as Indian citizens are not just obligations; they are also opportunities to make a positive impact on our society and nation. By fulfilling these duties, we can contribute to building a more just, equitable, and prosperous India for all.

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without being discriminated on the basis of caste creed sex relation so citizens are I also have the freedom to propagate practice and preserve the culture of their own choice so as we all know that India is very famous for their different cultures being different peoples are following the different traditions they have the different cultures so no one prohibits them for doing that so the next one is right to constitutional remedies so here the rate included under the writ of 32 right against constitutional remedies so what happened in this the what is included in the right against constitutional remedy as we discussed about right to equality right to freedom right against exploitation right to freedom of religion cultural and educational right so here what does included and right to constitutional remedies that if any person is faced that his right is not being he is not getting that right properly or he is being violated by the state or organization or by any individual so that right this right right to religious right to constitutional remedies protect them or allow them to move to court and get justice there that right is will that particular article is just to preserve the different rights of the people and the last which we are going to discuss down is right to education as we all know that education is considered as a biggest weapon in present or in modern scenario so what does it mean that it is essential that each and every person is getting the education to the fullest so what the government is doing for that as we discussed on the first April 2010 our Constitution passed a law making education a fundamental right on 1st April 2010 this is included as an fundamental right so what happened in this that each and every person or each and every child whose age group aged 6 to 14 here get a free and compulsory education no charges will be taken from them if we and we go to the government schools a compulsory education under the free and compulsory education age group six to fourteen years children are getting the free education without any charges here eighty sixth amendment of Constitution carried out in the 2002 made education of fundamental rights now what does amendment like the Constitution is being made on 1949 as discussed here the Constitution is completely down in 1949 now there are some changes if we want to change something in our Constitution as we the Constitution is made so many years ago so they are not aware about our present condition if we want to change anything in Constitution that represents to the abandonment and right to education as a fundamental right is it a sixth amendment in a constitution so moving further fundamental rights as a human right so what does included on the human right we had already discussed down about the human right in the previous chapter so a country plays an active role as a member of the commission of human life and what does that United Nation is also included then that CHR was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006 and India is taking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and made significant contribution to it that each and every person got of equal right and their equal duties will be given to them along with the rights India was among the original members of the United Nation and signed as UN declaration a declaration United Nation Declaration is in Washington on 1st January 1942 so moving further now we are going to discuss down about the directive principles of the state policies so now what else directive principles of the state policies it also relates with some kinds of rights or some kind of duties as well but as we'll discuss that fundamental rights are considered as justic seeable the code give a judgment or code give a justice if someone disagrees with your right but if we talk about the director principle of state policy these are not just disabled or not legally enforceable so what does it include director principle include the 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responsible and healthy nation and it has included our constitution in forty sixth amendment as we discussed earlier what is Amendment and fundamental demand duties included in our Constitution under forty six forty second amendment certain fundamental duties are s to avoid the Constitution by the curb we have to respect the national flag and the national anthem we have to cherish the noble ideals which is being inspired as a national freedom struggle of the freedom so this fourth third we have to uphold and protect the watch like so virginity these are not only words they means a lot and we had already discussed down about this so virginity unity integrity of India and fourth one is defend the country and render the national services up to two we can able to do that and to promote harmony the feeling of oneness the combine s Brotherhood linguistic religious and dignity after the men must be there the values are must be preserved as a rich heritage of our constitute and community culture and the further the next one is to protect the natural environment like forestry Lake River Wildlife is also our duty which we are nowadays try forgetting day by day so we must ensure that our natural environment is also safe the second another one is to develop the scientific temper humanism and spirit of inquiring into the forms to safeguard the public property so public property must not be a mesh-like we are going to the park and to be a continuously damaging that path it means we are not aware about the fundamental duties we don't have the right to damage the public properties and the last one which we are going to discuss is to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activities so that nation constantly rise and higher levels of NGOs and achievement we must do the activity like that in which our nation grows to a large extent we do an economic activity for the betterment of ourselves as well and for the betterment of our nation as well so 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fundamental rights we had discussed down about right to equality this came under the right 40 article 14 to 18 ensure that each and every person is equal before law and further we had discussed about right to freedom in 19 to 22 article and in this article ensure that each and every person got a proper freedom further we had discussed about right against exploitation no exploitation on the basis of any kind of forced labor or child labor must not be practiced in our country that right is included in our I took under Article 23 to 24 and further we had discussed about right to freedom of religion any person has the complete right to follow any religion without any prohibition it included under the 25th to 28th article further we had discussed down about the cultural and educational right under the article 29 to 30 what we discussed here that any person can be able to get education from any institution of his own choice and he has the full authority to follow any culture further we had discussed about right to constitutional remedies we can able to make written it under the article 32 if we found somewhere someone found that he is violated and he does not get there right properly further we had discussed down about the right to education and in right to education we discussed here on 1st April 2010 a constitution passed a law making education that each and every child that is age of 6 to 14 14 years got a proper education free or compulsory education we had discussed down about the human rights and the fundamental rights and so in the Constitution right to constitutional remedies where various rates are being done on that that is a right to habeas calls mandamus prohibition certiorari Kyogre and so so these are some ribs which we are able to apply if we found that we are not getting a right properly so further we had discussed down about the directive principles of the state policy and after that we had discussed down about the fundamental duties as we are enjoying some right so as a citizen of India we had to follow some duties as well so hope you got the chapter very well so now your homework is that you have to complete down the exercise which is given at the end of your chapter and try to solve this exercise by yourself without the help of any other personhello students hope you had already was a first part of this chapter so what we discussed in the first part as we had already discussed about the preamble preamble is conceded as a preface or the first page of our Constitution the word which is included in our preamble is subversion secular socialist Democratic Republic and along with that we had discussed about the justice liberty equality and fraternity and after discussing that we had the switch to the fundamental right so we had already discussed about the two fundamental right the first we had discussed about the right to equality it came under the article 14 280 and what is included in it that each and every person is equal before the law and further we had discussed about right to freedom that is that tells 19 to 22 and so what is included in the right to freedom the freedom of expand expression the freedom to assemble the freedom of forming Association or the Union we are free to form any kind of Association or any kind of Union and if we are to go at any other place within the country we can able to go there and even we can able to reside or settle there as well no one has prohibit him us from doing such kind of thing and as we will discussed about the profession all the occupation as I adopted the profession of teaching so you do have the right to adopt any profession of your own choice the third we had discussed about the right against exploitation under Article 23 to 24 so what happened in this we just have to stop the problems like child labor or the forced labor human trafficking so all such kind of practices if someone faced he has the right against exploitation he can able to go to the court that has supreme court all the higher so to find out justice so in the last we have discussed about the right to freedom of religion so what does the religion means that the different peoples are following the different religions like some arts following the Sikhism some are following the channel some some are following the Hinduism so the India is considered as a secular state and secular state representing that they are accepting the each and every religion without any quotient or without any where is the people are free to follow any relations so moving further in this video now we are going to discuss down the cultural and educational right so what is the cultural and educational right it is included in the article 29 to 30 so what is happening here the cultural and educational right definitely the word cultural means the relates with the word culture and if we talk about the educational it relates with the education if I want to follow the culture any I am free to follow any culture I am free to do get education from any Institute here you can able to read the line as well all Indian citizen have equally DRI equal right related to the cultural and education every search I'll is free to receive education up to any level of an educational institution without being discriminated on the basis of caste creed sex relation so citizens are I also have the freedom to propagate practice and preserve the culture of their own choice so as we all know that India is very famous for their different cultures being different peoples are following the different traditions they have the different cultures so no one prohibits them for doing that so the next one is right to constitutional remedies so here the rate included under the writ of 32 right against constitutional remedies so what happened in this the what is included in the right against constitutional remedy as we discussed about right to equality right to freedom right against exploitation right to freedom of religion cultural and educational right so here what does included and right to constitutional remedies that if any person is faced that his right is not being he is not getting that right properly or he is being violated by the state or organization or by any individual so that right this right right to religious right to constitutional remedies protect them or allow them to move to court and get justice there that right is will that particular article is just to preserve the different rights of the people and the last which we are going to discuss down is right to education as we all know that education is considered as a biggest weapon in present or in modern scenario so what does it mean that it is essential that each and every person is getting the education to the fullest so what the government is doing for that as we discussed on the first April 2010 our Constitution passed a law making education a fundamental right on 1st April 2010 this is included as an fundamental right so what happened in this that each and every person or each and every child whose age group aged 6 to 14 here get a free and compulsory education no charges will be taken from them if we and we go to the government schools a compulsory education under the free and compulsory education age group six to fourteen years children are getting the free education without any charges here eighty sixth amendment of Constitution carried out in the 2002 made education of fundamental rights now what does amendment like the Constitution is being made on 1949 as discussed here the Constitution is completely down in 1949 now there are some changes if we want to change something in our Constitution as we the Constitution is made so many years ago so they are not aware about our present condition if we want to change anything in Constitution that represents to the abandonment and right to education as a fundamental right is it a sixth amendment in a constitution so moving further fundamental rights as a human right so what does included on the human right we had already discussed down about the human right in the previous chapter so a country plays an active role as a member of the commission of human life and what does that United Nation is also included then that CHR was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006 and India is taking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and made significant contribution to it that each and every person got of equal right and their equal duties will be given to them along with the rights India was among the original members of the United Nation and signed as UN declaration a declaration United Nation Declaration is in Washington on 1st January 1942 so moving further now we are going to discuss down about the directive principles of the state policies so now what else directive principles of the state policies it also relates with some kinds of rights or some kind of duties as well but as we'll discuss that fundamental rights are considered as justic seeable the code give a judgment or code give a justice if someone disagrees with your right but if we talk about the director principle of state policy these are not just disabled or not legally enforceable so what does it include director principle include the economic principles Gandhian principle the philosophy of she's represented to the Gandhian principle because we all know that Gandhiji philosophy is quite acceptable and a good one the principle relating to the reforms of law and justice and administration principle for the promotion of international peace and understanding these are some of the principles of directive state principle policy as we discuss down already about the fundamental right so here is a chart given below which you have to read it by yourself it's a short chart of the complete fundamental right has like we had discussed about right to equality right to freedom right against exploitation right to religion control and the educational writer like who what is included in cultural and educational right protection of language script culture and many oddities and right of many or 'ti to establish the administration it is considered these tables are considered tables like such as considered as in short notes of the complete chapter these are the short notes of fundamental rights so you have to read go through this note very well so moving further as I am enjoying some write definitely I have some beauty says with like in the whom as well if I am getting each and everything so I have some kind of responsibilities as well so same as here the different fundamental duties are also given to the different citizens so what are the different fundamental duties there are mainly ten fundamental duties which we are going to discussed here but before that we need to understand the word fundamental duties there are as we discuss right without duties are meaningless a person is getting a complete right so if his does not have any duty can he able to do that properly definitely not it means that he is enjoying each and everything and he's does not have any kind of responsibility the life of that person is not very well so fundamental duties are defined as and moral duties of Indian citizen built a free responsible and healthy nation and it has included our constitution in forty sixth amendment as we discussed earlier what is Amendment and fundamental demand duties included in our Constitution under forty six forty second amendment certain fundamental duties are s to avoid the Constitution by the curb we have to respect the national flag and the national anthem we have to cherish the noble ideals which is being inspired as a national freedom struggle of the freedom so this fourth third we have to uphold and protect the watch like so virginity these are not only words they means a lot and we had already discussed down about this so virginity unity integrity of India and fourth one is defend the country and render the national services up to two we can able to do that and to promote harmony the feeling of oneness the combine s Brotherhood linguistic religious and dignity after the men must be there the values are must be preserved as a rich heritage of our constitute and community culture and the further the next one is to protect the natural environment like forestry Lake River Wildlife is also our duty which we are nowadays try forgetting day by day so we must ensure that our natural environment is also safe the second another one is to develop the scientific temper humanism and spirit of inquiring into the forms to safeguard the public property so public property must not be a mesh-like we are going to the park and to be a continuously damaging that path it means we are not aware about the fundamental duties we don't have the right to damage the public properties and the last one which we are going to discuss is to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activities so that nation constantly rise and higher levels of NGOs and achievement we must do the activity like that in which our nation grows to a large extent we do an economic activity for the betterment of ourselves as well and for the betterment of our nation as well so here look at this what is child labor as we discussed here what else I labor child labor refers to the work that is mentally physically socially and morally dangerous and harmful to that children and when US education made a fundamental right here we had already discussed in 86 amendment 2002 education made a fundamental right which amendment added to the fundamental duties to the Constitution and boobage and management is edited 42nd amendment okay so hope you got the chapter very well so what we'll discuss in this chapter we had started down the chapter from the preface that is considered as a preamble we had discussed down the different words and meaning which is given in the preamble and how the deep their meaning is subversion secular socialist democratic republic and further we had discuss down the ideals transformed into the constitution that represents to the justice liberty equality and fraternity further we had discussed about the different fundamental rights in the fundamental rights we had discussed down about right to equality this came under the right 40 article 14 to 18 ensure that each and every person is equal before law and further we had discussed about right to freedom in 19 to 22 article and in this article ensure that each and every person got a proper freedom further we had discussed about right against exploitation no exploitation on the basis of any kind of forced labor or child labor must not be practiced in our country that right is included in our I took under Article 23 to 24 and further we had discussed about right to freedom of religion any person has the complete right to follow any religion without any prohibition it included under the 25th to 28th article further we had discussed down about the cultural and educational right under the article 29 to 30 what we discussed here that any person can be able to get education from any institution of his own choice and he has the full authority to follow any culture further we had discussed about right to constitutional remedies we can able to make written it under the article 32 if we found somewhere someone found that he is violated and he does not get there right properly further we had discussed down about the right to education and in right to education we discussed here on 1st April 2010 a constitution passed a law making education that each and every child that is age of 6 to 14 14 years got a proper education free or compulsory education we had discussed down about the human rights and the fundamental rights and so in the Constitution right to constitutional remedies where various rates are being done on that that is a right to habeas calls mandamus prohibition certiorari Kyogre and so so these are some ribs which we are able to apply if we found that we are not getting a right properly so further we had discussed down about the directive principles of the state policy and after that we had discussed down about the fundamental duties as we are enjoying some right so as a citizen of India we had to follow some duties as well so hope you got the chapter very well so now your homework is that you have to complete down the exercise which is given at the end of your chapter and try to solve this exercise by yourself without the help of any other person\n"