The Funda of Fundamental Rights

If you’ve had the faintest association with Indian education you certainly have heard of ‘fundamental rights’. With Republic Day arriving on schedule even this year it’s a good time to have a quick revision of what fundamentals these rights talk about. We are extremely thankful to the naming organizations for choosing self-explanatory titles to our rights.

• The right to equality
• The right to freedom
• The right to freedom from exploitation
• The right to freedom of religion
• Cultural and educational rights
• The right to constitutional remedies

Now most of these rights are so intrinsic to our condition that government doesn’t need to spend any time convincing people to utilize them. There are some special rights, however, like the Right to Practice Terror in the name of Region and Religion that need to be asserted with a certain amount of extravagance to justify their outrageousness; but that’s a topic for some other day.

It may seem, in the 64th year of independence, that rights and that too the fundamentals ones have had enough time to actually become what they were designed to be. That hardly seems to be the case. With human rights being violated with startling regularity all over the country and people in some parts still negotiating the right to be accepted as citizens it can hardly be called a time span well utilized in application.

We need to introduce a Right To Awareness and hope that the people will rise to just be aware of uncultivated rights, their own and especially that of the suppressed. We are sure that knowledge and awareness, once provided to the people, they will act for change – without provocation. They will act to bring the change that very obviously needs to be achieved and is lost in the over abundance of distraction.

Until the awareness-injecting Constitutional change is introduced, we at Jaago Re have been working at bringing people together for common causes diligently. Never have there been so many causes active in the effort to make a positive change. A day when Constitution and its endowments are being remembered, is a perfect day to come out practicing the Right To be Socially Active.

Parimal Tripathi is a volunteer content writer for Jaagore. To learn and speak about issues on street children, environmental pollution, garbage disposal, corruption, volunteering, volunteer work, community services, NGOs, Social Issues, social and civic issues visit http://www.jaagore.com