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...

49

Protection of monuments and places and objects of national importance.

It shall be the obligation of the State to protect every monument or place or object of artistic or historic interest, ¹[declared by or under law made by Parliament] to be of national importance, from spoliation, disfigurement, destruction, removal, disposal or export, as the case may be.

Footnotes (from the official text)

¹ Subs. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 27, for "declared by Parliament by law" (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).

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