Which of the following statements is/are true of the Fundamental Duties of an Indian citizen? 1. A legislative process has been provided to enforce these duties. 2. They are correlative to legal duties. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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Indian Polity

Prelims 2017

Which of the following statements is/are true of the Fundamental Duties of an Indian citizen?

A legislative process has been provided to enforce these duties.
They are correlative to legal duties.

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Explanation

Statement 1 is incorrect: Fundamental Duties, enshrined in Part IV-A (Article 51A) of the Constitution, are non-justiciable. The Constitution itself does not provide any specific "legislative process" for their enforcement. While Parliament has the authority to enact separate statutes to penalize certain behaviors (such as the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971), there is no inherent enforcement mechanism or process defined within the constitutional text for these duties.

Statement 2 is incorrect: Fundamental Duties are essentially a moral and civic code for citizens and are not considered "correlative" to legal duties in a strict legal-technical sense. Legal duties are specific obligations created by statutory law that carry distinct legal penalties for non-compliance. In contrast, Fundamental Duties are broad principles intended to guide the conduct of citizens and do not have a direct, binding correlation with the legal duties defined in various acts of Parliament.

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