Difference between Economic and Social Rights:
(a) Economic Rights:
(i) It includes the basic needs to live and to enjoy the right to get food, shelter, clothing, health, etc.
(ii) An adequate wage to meet their basic needs.
(iii)Democratic societies provide reasonable conditions of work.
(iv)Citizens with low incomes receive housing, medical facilities and unemployed people receive certain minimum wages to meet their basic needs.
(v) In India, the government has introduced a rural employment guarantee scheme to assist the poor.
(b) Social Rights:
(i) Every citizen is entitled to enjoy the right to work, to earn one’s own livelihood and the state provides opportunities to earn the resources.
(ii) A welfare state guarantees rights to its citizens to adopt the profession of ones choice and no one can be compelled to do the work which is not as per his choice.
