56. The state shall endeavour to promote the welfare, prosperity and progress of the people by establishing and maintaining democratic socialist order wherein social justice will prevail and all will lead decent, free and cultured life. For the aforesaid objective the state, in particular, shall direct its policy towards securing:
(i) the economic development of the country in accordance with a general economic plan, relying on the state and co-operative sector while achieving a general control over the private economic sector;
(ii)The transfer to public ownership important means of communication and credit and exchange, mineral resources and the resources of natural power and such other large scale economic enterprises as are matured for socialisation;
(iii) the municipalisation of public utilities;
(iv) the encouragement of the organisation of agriculture and small scale industries on co-operative basis;
(v) the organisation of the facilities of cheap credit on co-operative basis;
(vi) the control of private enterprises and of the free operation of competition with a view to securing to the people maximum satisfaction of the needs along with decent service conditions to workers and preventing the waste and misuse of material resources as well as the concentration of their ownership and control in a few individuals;
(vii) the abolition of unemployment and the provision of adequate means of livelihood to all the citizens;
(viii) the protection of the strength and health of the workers against exploitation’ and of their childhood and youth against moral and material abandonment;
(ix) the provision for just and humane conditions of work, maternity relief and old age sickness, disablement and other undeserved want ;
(x) the improvement of public health and standard of living of its people;
(xi) the promotion of cultural and economic advancement of the people through universal free and compulsory primary education for all children up to the age of 14 and free vocational and technical training for industrial workers in factories and farms. These directive principles of the state policy shall form the basis for the direction and the limit of legislation and administration of the Federation and the Units.