PRACTICING OUR FUNDAMENTAL

DUTIES

Duration: 2 hoursSESSION 2

Key Message:

Citizenship means reflecting and living our

constitutional values

Fundamental Duties flow out of the basic

values

Align our actions with our values and

fundamental duties to create change

“Think about a time when you went out of your way to take some action

against an external situation that you thought was unjust, discriminatory,

or against one’s own or someone else’s freedom. You could have put

yourselves in trouble by doing so, but you still went ahead and did it.

Share the incident with each other.”

Activity 1

De-brief Questions:

1. How did you feel about the situation?

2. What prompted you to take the actions you

did?

Divide yourself into 5 small groups and two fundamental duties will be assignedto each group (refer to Part IV A of Constitution while doing this). Each groupshould prepare a role play on how you interpret the fundamental dutiesassigned to you. Each group shares their role play and other groups are askedto identify the fundamental duty being played out.

Activity 2

De-brief Questions:

1. Refer to the halfpage onFundamentalDuties and discusswhy is the spacegiven to this soless compared toFRs? Are theseless important?

2. What does thefirst duty writtenhere, “to abide bythe constitution”...mean to us?

3. What do theother duties writtenhere mean to us?

Read the handouts which speak about the individuals and organisations

that have been working on upholding fundamental duties. The exercise is

to work in pairs to identify which specific fundamental duty each case

upholds.

Activity 3

Work in Pairs:

Share, Discuss and

Summarize:

Citizenship means reflecting and living our

constitutional values

Fundamental Duties flow out of the basic

values

Align our actions with our values and

fundamental duties to create change

Actions for next session:

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