GOAL OF A MODERN STATE

• 1.The state should create conditions for the growth of free

individuality and personality of its citizens. TH Green said: “The
business of state is not merely the business of a police man, of
arresting wrong doers, or of ruthlessly enforcing contracts but of
providing for men an equal change , as far as possible of realising
what is best in their intellectual and moral natures.”
• 2. The state must maintain peace and order to ensure conducive
social environment for the individuals so that they can spend their
lives happily and peacefully.
• 3. State should establish institutions to prevent chaos, mess or
ambiguity to maintain and keep the rights and duties of people
intact.
• 4. Modern state should not become a mere police state or banana
state. The state should assume the duty of promoting general
welfare.
• 5. It has to be a collective body not a joint stock company of
privileged shots.
• 6. State should provide, its inhabitants with all the necessities
required by successful human life.
• 7. State should develop systems of money and finance the society.
• 8. Freedom of expression shall not be curtailed.
• 9. State should not prescribe any set of ideas, religion or morality.
• 10. State should not craft any self style customs or fashions
because they develop unconsciousness among people.
• 11.The state also aims at the political welfare of the people. For
this purpose the state gives some fundamental rights to the
people. The same has been done in India. In India all the
citizens enjoy the right to vote. And every Indian citizen of
twenty-five years of age has the right to contest the election
either for Legislature or for Parliament.
• 12. The modern state adopts measures for eliminating poverty. For example, in India
Five Year Plans and Community Development Projects have been introduced. This
led to the increase in national income and to the rise of the standard of living.
• 13. The state frames the laws for the security of the life and property of the people.
The law-breakers are tried and punished by the Judiciary and due protection is given
to citizens of the state.
• 14. In order to produce good citizens, the state introduces finer educational system and
wants its individuals to come out as better organs of society. Almost all the states are
making progress in this respect. For example, many laws were framed by the
government in order to eliminate such evils of society as child-marriages, dowry-
system and untouchability, etc. Measures are being adopted to eliminate illiteracy.