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Basic socio-economic rights were placed in which part of the Constitution rather than in fundamental rights?

AThe Twelve Schedules
BEmergency clauses
CDirective Principles
DThe Preamble text
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Directive Principles
1. Critics ask why a poor country did this. 2. Such rights sit in the Directive Principles. 3. This is called a limitation of the Constitution. _Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 10, The Philosophy of the Constitution._
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