UPSC Prelims 2020 Question:

Which part of the Constitution of India declares the ideal of Welfare State?

Explanation:

• The term ‘welfare state’ denotes a kind of Government where the state is in charge of safeguarding and advancing the economic and social well-being of its people.
  
  
• The Directive Principles of State Policy contained in the Part IV of the Constitution of India aims to create social and economic conditions under which the citizens can lead a good life. They aim to establish ‘social and economic democracy through a welfare state’.
  
  
• Article 38 of the Constitution of India states that the State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may, a social order in which justice – social, economic and political – shall pervade all institutions of national life. This provision under Directive Principles of State Policy provides a broad framework for the establishment of the welfare state.
  
  

Therefore, option (1) is the correct answer.

Subject: Polity | Directive Principles of State Policy