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Fraternity to the people. All people above the age of 18
years have been given the right to vote and
The Constitution of India seeks to cultivate
fraternity among all citizens of the country despite participate in the government, thus giving them
all their differences in terms of religion, caste, political justice. The citizens of India can live and
settle in any part of India, thus ensuring the
community, region, language or any other
distinction. This ideal seeks to unite and integrate cultivation of fraternity among the people.
the people of India while maintaining dignity of Similarly, the ideal of secularism has been
translated into the law because religion,
the individual. This ideal expects the people of
India to identify themselves as Indians first and a community, race, belief or faith is not the basis of
any qualification, and no discrimination can be
Punjabi, a Kashmiri, an Assamese or a Tamilian
practised on these grounds.
later.
Similarly, an effort has been made to realise these
HOW IDEALS GET TRANSLATED INTO LAWS ideals into reality by making suitable laws. For
example, the right to information has been given
In the above discussion, we have discussed the to the people so that a common man can seek to
vision and ideals of the Constitution of India.
know from the government the reason behind an
However, these vision and ideals can be achieved action.
only when suitable provisions are made. The
Constitution of India itself has incorporated many
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provisions by which many of these ideals have Info Bits
been translated into reality. For example, the
Constitution abolishes untouchability in order to The words ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ were added to the
give equal status to all people. Similarly, traffic in Preamble later as these words were not present in
humans has been abolished bringing social justice the original Constitution.

v The Constitution of India was drafted by the representatives of the people from all walks of life.

v The concerns and aspirations of the people were considered before finalising the Constitution.
v The Constitution has set a vision so that the people of India can lead a good life.
v The Preamble to the Constitution declares India to be a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic
republic.
v The ideals of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity have been incorporated in the Preamble so that all
people can lead a good and contented life.
v An effort has been made to translate the ideals of the Constitution into reality by incorporating suitable
provisions in the Constitution.
v Suitable laws have also been made in an effort to realise the vision and ideals of the Constitution of India.

A. Tick (3) the right option :
1. The chairman of the Drafting Committee was ______________ .

(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (c) Jawaharlal Nehru
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