SUBJECT:- MENTORED SEMINAR 1
NAME:-SUPRADEEP SAMANTA
COURSE: - BA LLB(H)
SEMESTER: - 3rd
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ECONOMIC JUSTICE
UNDER INDIAN CONSTITUTION

INTRODUCTION
 Economic Justice’ means the banishment of
poverty
 economic justice aims at establishing economic
democracy and a „welfare state
 The right to economic justice to the scheduled
castes, scheduled tribes and other weaker sections
is a fundamental right to secure equality of status,
opportunity and liberty
 The ideal of economic justice is to make equality of
status meaningful and life worth living at its best
removing inequality of opportunity and of status-
social, economic and political

ARTICLE 39
 Article39specificallyrequiresthestatetodirectitspolicyfor
securingeconomicjustice
Andthefollowingprinciplesare:
Article39(a)
Equalrightsofmenandwomentoadequatemeansoflivehood
 OLGATELLIS V BMCAIR1986SC180

ARTICLE 39(B)
Distributionof ownershipandcontrolofthematerialresourceofthe
communitytothecommongood.
 StateofMaharashtravsBasntibaim KhetanAIR1986scc516

ARTICLE 39(C)
 To ensure that the economic system should not
result in concentration of wealth and means of
production to the common detriment
 State of Tamil Nadu v Abu kavar bai (1984)1 SCC 515

ARTICLE39(D)
 Equal pay for equal work for both men and women
 Equal remuneration act, 1976
 Randhir singh vs. union of India AIR 1982 SC

ARTICLE 39(E)
 To protect health and strength of workers and
tender age of children and to ensure that they are
not forced by economic necessity to enter
avocations and unsuited to their age or strength
 M c Mehta v. state of Tamil nadu AIR 1991SCC283

ARTICLE 39(F)
 42nd constitutional amendment act
 That children are given opportunity and
facility to develop in a healthy manner and in
condition of freedom and dignity that
childhood and youth are protected against
exploitation and against moral and material
abandonment

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Reference:-
 Constitutional law of India – dr. J N Pandy
 https://indiankanoon.org/
 International Journal of Law Management & Humanities
2018 IJLMH Volume 2, Issue 1