Every Citizen Bound By Duties, Says PM Narendra Modi On 75th Independence Day

Be it people or police, every citizen is bound by duties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, while addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort, New Delhi. 

He asserted that desired results can be achieved ahead of schedule if everyone fulfils their responsibility.

In his Independence Day address, he emphasised there was a need to pay attention to duties.

“It is the responsibility of the government to try and provide 24-hour electricity. But it is the duty of the citizens to conserve as much electricity as they can,” Modi said.

Fundamental duties are enshrined in part 4 of our Constitution. Many legal luminaries believe that we should see fundamental duties in conjunction with fundamental rights. However, that fundamental rights are enforceable but fundamental duties are not enforceable in law is a fact that we cannot lose sight of.

Modi further affirmed while it is the duty of the government to ensure water reaches every field, ‘per drop more crop’ should be the effort.

“Chemical-free farming, organic farming is our duty,” the prime minister said.

Modi claimed that be it police or people, ruler or administrator, nobody remains untouched from citizen duties.

“If everyone fulfils citizen duties, I am confident, desired results can be achieved ahead of time,” he said. 

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana also, in an Independence Day function, on Monday said the fundamental duties are not merely pedantic or technical, instead they were incorporated as the key to social transformation, as the framers of the Constitution imagined a nation, where citizens are aware, alert and able to make the right decisions.