UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2021

What is the position of the Right to Property in India?

  1. Legal right available to citizens only
  2. Legal right available to any person
  3. Fundamental Right available to citizens only
  4. Neither Fundamental Right nor legal right

Answer

Correct Answer

Legal right available to any person

Explanation

The 44th Amendment (1978) removed the Right to Property from the Fundamental Rights and placed it in Article 300A as a constitutional/legal right, which is available to any person, not only citizens.

Topics: constitutional provisions, legal status of the right to property, polity & governance, right to property (article 300a)