Sapru Committee
Also called: Sapru Report · Topic: Making of the Constitution: Constituent Assembly, Sources and Salient Features · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Sapru Committee was a non-party committee headed by Tej Bahadur Sapru. Its 1945 report suggested principles for India's future constitution. Its most important idea was to split rights into two kinds. Justiciable rights can be enforced in court. Non-justiciable rights cannot be enforced in court and only guide the government.
Example
This split appears in the Constitution. Fundamental Rights (Part III) are justiciable, so a person can go straight to the Supreme Court under Art. 32. Directive Principles (Part IV) are non-justiciable, so no court can force the government to follow them.
Don't confuse with
- Karachi Resolution (1931): the Karachi Resolution listed rights and economic goals but did not divide them by whether courts could enforce them. The Sapru Committee made that split.
Related concepts
- Government of India Act 1919
- Dyarchy
- Government of India Act 1935
- Constitution of India Bill 1895
- Nehru Report
- Karachi Resolution