Fraternity was expected to preserve and promote the dignity of the individual. In the minds of the founding fathers, the dignity of the individual was of supreme importance. The objective was to improve the quality of life for the individual by guaranteeing the fundamental rights of freedom, equality etc. and by issuing guidelines to the State in the form of Directive Principles of State Policy to so orient its policy as to provide to all citizens, inter alia adequate means of livelihood, just and humane conditions of work and a decent standard of life. Article 17 as a fundamental right was directed at abolishing the practice o f untouchability which was an affront to human dignity. To enforce any of his fundamental rights and his individual dignity a person could approach even the Supreme Court directly.
Extract from Our Constitution by S.C. Kashyap
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