Human Rights Violation of the Weaker Sections in India: A Constitutional Perspective

In this paper author has tried to  highlight  what  are  the  various  legal steps that have been taken to  meet the changing needs of the society to ensure the members of the general public  to enjoy  a dignified life in India. Man is a social animal who lives in society only exception on the earth. The term society is referred as a web of relations which is dynamic in nature. The great old civilization of man lived in the Indus valley. Before the advent of Britishers the religious texts were used as instruments with binding force to regulate society.  It is pertinent to mention here that the conditions of women or untouchables were very miserable; there are evidences in the support of the assertion. The Hindu Varnasystemor social evil of untouchability, child marriage or sati Pratha etc. is the glaring examples of the human rights violations of the weaker sections. The regime of Britishers in India, which ruled for about 200 years tried to remove the social evils as mentioned above by introducing the modern concept like democracy or system of education in English medium etc. After Indian independence, 1947 the constitution became the supreme law of the land which came into force in 1950, eliminating all kinds of in equalities and discrimination based on caste, colour, gender or religion etc. Moreover the UDHR of 1948 proved an ideal document for the Indian constituent assembly. Accordingly the part third of the Indian Constitution incorporates various human rights as fundamental. But still  the violations of human rights persists in the form of, untouchability, starvation, poor health condition , child rights abuse, women exploitation at work places,  insanitary conditions and  manual scavengering etc. Thanks to Indian parliament for enactment of the various legislations to deal with above referred few mentioned incidents of human rights violations especially of the weaker sections. The recent example is prohibition of manual scavangering. Various commissions like the NHRC, NSKC, NCSC, NCST, MCW and NCM etc at national to monitor the violations of human rights and other incidental matters connected thereto of this vulnerable sections.