ACTIZEN Activity 8
Your Opinion Matters
Type of Activity – Community Engagement Activity
Opinion Survey – Your Opinion Matters
Introduction
A bunch of friends decided to celebrate a festival – they blocked the road, put up a stage with terrible singers and installed massive amplifiers that blared music for a kilometre around. They were exercising their fundamental right to freedom of expression, they said. The people in the neighbourhood spent a sleepless night, and the next morning hauled them to court – they were exercising their right to constitutional remedies, they said. Then the noisy bunch said that they also had a right to equal protection by law. And then…
This is a never-ending story! It’s nice to know and use your rights; it’s nicer still to know that other people also have rights. As Oliver Wendell puts it – “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” Try swinging your fist past your friend’s nose and see what happens where that takes you! With rights, come responsibility.
Fundamental Duties have been added to the Constitution of India to help Indian Citizens understand that they are important for the growth of the country, to maintain peace and harmony in the country. Fundamental Duties help and guide us to understand our civil and social responsibilities and that by observing them we ensure democracy in India is upheld.
Expected Outcomes
- Students will be able to think about the fundamental duties in practice.
- Students will become aware of the opinion of Indian citizens towards their duties.
- Students will be able to analyse the difference between constitutional duties and actual duties they need to perform as an Indian citizen.
- Students will be motivated to perform their duties first besides claiming their rights.
Teachers’ Section
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Students’ Section
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Responses