Part IV · Right to Constitutional Remedies

Article 47 Duty of the State to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living and to improve public health.

This article makes nutrition, living standards, and public health primary duties of the State. The State must raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people. It must improve public health. The State should also endeavour to stop the consumption of intoxicating drinks and of drugs that injure health, except for medicinal purposes.

1. The State shall regard the raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties and, in particular, the State shall endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption except for medicinal purposes of intoxicating drinks and of drugs which are injurious to health.

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