(a) Socialist Principles:
- The state aims at public welfare.
- Adequate means of livelihood for all the citizens.
- Proper distribution of wealth so as to serve the common good.
- To establish such an economic set up that there is no concentration of wealth and resources in a few hands.
- To give financial aid to the old, unemployed and the disabled.
- Equal pay for equal work for all men and women.
- To provide free and compulsory education to all the children below the age of fourteen years.
- The state is to make efforts to decrease economic inequalities.
- To provide adequate wages, good standard of living and leisure to all the workers.
(b) Gandhian Principles:
- To organise village Panchayats.
- To promote cottage industries on individual and cooperative basis in rural areas.
- To promote with special care educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the society, especially the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes.
- Prohibition of intoxicating drinks and other intoxicants which are injurious to health.
- To raise the standard of living of the people and improvement of public health,
(c) The Liberal or General Principles: In this category, those principles are included which are of a general and liberal character. These include :
- To frame a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.
- To bring about the separation of the judiciary from the executive.
- To organise agriculture on modern and scientific lines.
- To promote animal husbandry on scientific lines.
- To preserve and improve the breeds of the cattle and prohibit slaughter of cows, calves and other milch animals.
- To provide for the protection of wild animals.
- To protect every monument or place or object of artistic or historical interest.
- The state should endeavour to promote international peace and security.
