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Fundamental Rights and Duties Questions & Answers
Question 1: What is a right?
Answer: A specific act or behaviour accepted by all the people and the government is referred to as the right of the person.
Question 2: What do you understand by the term human rights?
Answer: Rights of an individual or a group that is necessary for the existence of a just and equal society is known as human rights.
Question 3: What are fundamental rights? Name them.
Answer: Fundamental rights are the rights that are granted by the Indian Constitution to individuals. There are six fundamental rights and these are:
- Right to Freedom
- Right to Equality
- Right to Freedom of Religion
- Right to Constitutional Remedies
- Right against Exploitation
- Cultural and Educational Rights
Question 4: Name two campaigns that are initiated for the upliftment of Dalits.
Answer: The Narmada Bachao and the Dalit’s Human Rights Campaign.
Question 5: What are the two exceptions to the Right to Equality?
Answer: The two exceptions to the Right to Equality are:
- It allows the government to make special provisions for women and children.
- The government can also make special provisions for advancement of backward classes and Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes.
Fundamental Rights and Duties Questions & Answers
Question 6: What are fundamental duties?
Answer: The Constitution of India grants fundamental rights to its citizens and in turn, the citizens are expected to do certain things which are collectively known as Fundamental Duties. There are ten fundamental duties and these have been incorporated in the Indian Constitution through the 42nd Amendment in 1976.
Question 7: Explain the Right to Constitutional Remedies.
Answer: The Right to Constitutional Remedies gives us the right to approach the judiciary if our rights are violated. If anyone is found guilty of violating other’s rights, he/she is asked by the government not to do so. This right empowers the Supreme Court to issue orders or writs to enforce the fundamental rights.
Question 8: What are cultural and educational rights?
Answer: Although all the citizens of the country are free to pursue their own culture and religion, the Indian Constitution gives special privileges to the minority sections of society. Minorites are allowed to conserve their language and culture by establishing their own educational rights.
Question 9: Write fundamental duties of an Indian citizen.
Answer: The ten fundamental duties of an Indian citizen are:
i. Abide by the constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and the National Anthem.
ii. Cherish and follow the noble ideals that inspired our national struggle for independence.
iii. Uphold and protect the unity, sovereignty and integrity of India.
iv. Defend the country and render national service, if and when required.
v. Promote harmony and the spirit of brotherhood amongst all citizens, irrespective of religious, linguistic, regional and sectional diversities; give up practices derogatory to the dignity of women.
vi. Value and preserve our cultural heritage.
vii. Protect and improve our natural environment including lakes, forests, river and wildlife, have empathy for living creatures.
viii. Develop scientific temper, humanism, spirit of inquiry and reform.
ix. Safeguard public property and reject violence.
x. Strive towards excellence in all areas of individual and collective activity, so that India as a nation scales to higher level of Endeavour and achievement.
xi. A parent or a guardian has to provide education to his child/ward between the age of 6-14 years.
Fundamental Rights and Duties Questions & Answers
Question 10: What do you know about the Right to Freedom?
Answer: Freedom is a very important aspect of one’s life and the Indian Constitution guarantees six different types of freedom to all its citizens. They are as follows:
- Freedom of speech and expression
- Freedom to form associations and unions
- Freedom to reside and settle in any part of India
- Freedom to assemble peacefully without arms
- Freedom to move freely throughout India
- Freedom to take up any profession or start a business or a trade
Question 11: ‘Right to Constitutional Remedies is the most important fundamental right.’ Give reasons.
Answer: Right toConstitutional Remedies is the most important fundamental right because it gives us the right to approach the judiciary if our rights are violated. If anyone is found guilty of violating other’s rights, he/she is asked by the government not to do so. this right empowers the Supreme Court to issue orders or writs to enforce the fundamental rights.
Question 12: Fundamental Rights and Duties go hand in hand’. Justify
Answer: Fundamental duties and fundamental rights go hand in hand.
- The citizens of the country cannot enjoy their fundamental rights unless others abide by their fundamental duties. For example, an individual cannot exercise his right to freedom of religion if others do not follow their duties and obstruct him from praying.
- Fundamental duties cannot be enforced in a court of law.
- Though the Indian Constitution does not punish the citizens for not performing their duties, citizens are expected to follow them to infuse a feeling of patriotism and belongingness amongst all the citizens of a country.
- Rights and duties enable good interactions between the people and give them a sense of responsibility towards themselves, other people and the nation.
- Every right has a corresponding fundamental duty. For example, we have the right to move about freely in India but it is our duty not to obstruct anyone else from doing the same.
Question 13: What was the new duty added in the Constitution in 2002?
Answer: The duty added in the Constitution in 2002 was stated that it the duty of the parent/ guardian to educate his/ her child between age of 6 and 14 years.
Question 14: Discrimination of any kind is against the Constitution. How do people discriminate? Why?
Answer: People discriminate:
- By allowing certain tasks to a particular gender.
- By not allowing people of certain castes/ religions/ race to participate in community activities.
- By not allowing people of certain casts/ religions/ language/race to live in their localities/ neighbourhood.
- By not allowing some people to access water from the same well or pump.
Question 15: Analyse each of the following situations and mention the right/s it relates to:
(a) A woman appeals to court because she is not being paid the same wages as her male colleagues – Right to Equality/ Exploitation
(b) The residents of the neighbourhood from a nature club are working on publishing a journal to promote conservation of nature – Right to Freedom
(c) A man travels to a neighboring town and takes up a job as a motor mechanic – Right to Freedom
(d) An NGO files a complaint (in court) against a factory for employing children under the age of 14 – Right to primary education / Right to Equality
So, these were Fundamental Rights and Duties Questions & Answers.