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Article 51A(g) requires citizens to protect:

Correct answer: (D) Natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers, and wildlife.

Article 51A(g) requires every citizen of India to protect and improve the natural environment, including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion for living creatures.

  1. (A)

    Only historical monuments

  2. (B)

    Only composite culture

  3. (C)

    Only public property

  4. (D)

    Natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers, and wildlife

Explanation

Article 51A(g), placed in Part IVA on Fundamental Duties, makes environmental protection a civic duty of every citizen of India. The official Constitution text does not limit this duty to a single asset or institution: it expressly covers the natural environment and then specifies forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife. It also adds compassion for living creatures, which makes the natural environment the only complete Article 51A(g) duty here. The other duties belong elsewhere in Article 51A or in related constitutional provisions, but they are not the Article 51A(g) duty.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) Historical monuments are not the subject of Article 51A(g), which is framed around the natural environment and living creatures.
  • (B) Composite culture is covered separately in Article 51A(f), while clause (g) deals with environmental protection.
  • (C) Public property is covered separately in Article 51A(i), not in the environmental duty under clause (g).

Concept

Fundamental Duties under Part IVA require exact clause-wise mapping of Article 51A. RAS repeatedly uses such provisions because close constitutional wording separates similar-looking duties.

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