These principles can be broadly classified under five categories:

Economic Principles:

The State will ensure to do or provide the following to all citizens:

Adequate means of livelihood for all citizens irrespective of men and women without bias
Equal distribution of wealth and resources among all classes
Equal pay for equal work for both men and women
Just and humane conditions of work, a decent standard of living , full employment, leisure and social and cultural opportunities;
Participation of workers in the management of undertakings and establishments
Protection of children, youth against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment.
Provision of work and compulsory education for all people, relief in case of unemployment, old age, sickness and disability and other cases of undeserved want
Equality of opportunity and status for all individuals level of nutrition and standard of living of the people
Public health and enforce prohibition of consumption of intoxicating drinks and drugs
Environment safeguarding forest and wild life of the country
A uniform civil code throughout the country
Protection of adult and child labour

Gandhian / Socialist Principles:

These principles are based on Mahatma Gandhi’s views on the social and economic development of a country and her villages:

To organize village panchayats and endow them power and authority to enable them to function as unit of self-government.
To promote cottage industries and village industries on an individual or co-operative basis in rural areas
To prohibit consumption of intoxicating and injurious drinks and drugs
To promote educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people particularly SCs, STs to establish social justice and equity
To organize agricultural and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines
To prohibit the slaughter of cows and other useful cattle

Protection of Environment and Monuments:

*To protect every monument of national importance from destruction, disfigurement, removal, disposal or export.
To protect and improve the environment and wildlife of the country.

Law, Justice and Administration:

To ensure that the legal system promotes justice on the basis of equal opportunity and shall provide legal aid.
To ensure opportunities for securing justice is not denied to any citizen.
To have uniform civil code for all citizens.
To take steps to separate the judiciary from the executive.

Principles for International Peace and Security: