Bare Act · Constitution of India · Part IV
Part IV · Articles
36 · Definition.
37 · Application of the principles...
38 · State to secure a social order for...
39 · Certain principles of policy to be...
39A · Equal justice and free legal aid.
40 · Organisation of village...
41 · Right to work, to education and to...
42 · Provision for just and humane...
43 · Living wage, etc., for workers.
43A · Participation of workers in...
43B · Promotion of co-operative...
44 · Uniform civil code for the...
45 · Provision for early childhood care...
46 · Promotion of educational and...
47 · Duty of the State to raise the...
48 · Organisation of agriculture and...
48A · Protection and improvement of...
49 · Protection of monuments and places...
50 · Separation of judiciary from...
51 · Promotion of international peace...
39A
Equal justice and free legal aid.
1The State shall secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice, on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall, in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities.]
Footnotes (from the official text)
1 Ins. by s. 8, ibid. (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
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