According to you, if everyone gets the right to shelter, how will it affect democracy in India?

If everyone gets the right to shelter, Indian democracy would be absolute in all means. By definition, ‘democracy is a form of government in which the common people hold political power and can rule either directly or through elected representatives’.

• PRINCIPLE 1: POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.

• PRINCIPLE 2: LIMITED GOVERNMENT.

• PRINCIPLE 3: SEPARATION OF POWERS.

• PRINCIPLE 4: CHECKS AND BALANCES.

• PRINCIPLE 5: JUDICIAL REVIEW.

• PRINCIPLE 6: FEDERALISM.

• PRINCIPLE 7: REPUBLICANISM

In reality, there are confusions in the right to shelter in the Indian constitution.

The Supreme Court has explained the meaning of life under Article 21 of the Constitution to include within its range, the right to shelter. The court elaborates it in 3 ways:

1. The right to shelter and residential facilities

2. Differentiating between mere animal-like existence and a decent human existence

3. Bringing out the need for a respectable life.

Right to own property or real estate was our original Fundamental Right given by The Constitution of India till 1975 emergency time. Later this Right was taken back by Government. Article 300A explains the Right to own a property as a Constitutional Right.

Most, unfortunately, government after government no budgetary portions to shelter needs to be provided. But unlucky Indian citizens are still living in unhygienic conditions in slums and villages where even drinking water or power is unreached.