Question

Fundamental Duties are _________.

• A. Not provided in our Constitution
• B. Passed by a separate law of the parliament
• C. Provided by the 42nd Constitution amendment Act October, 1976
• D. Left to the President of India to be proclaimed during an emergency

Answer 1

The correct option is C Provided by the 42nd Constitution amendment Act October, 1976

The Fundamental Duties of citizens were added to the Constitution by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, upon the recommendations of the Swaran Singh Committee that was constituted by the Government of India earlier that year to study the question of amending the Constitution. The recommendations were passed in 1976 and came into effect on 3rd January, 1977. Originally ten in number, the Fundamental Duties were increased to eleven by the 86th Amendment in 2002.