Directive Principles
(1) The State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the national life. (2) The State shall, in particular, strive to minimise the inequalities in income, and endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations.
This directs the government to build a genuinely just social, economic, and political order, and specifically work to close income and status gaps - not just between individuals, but between different regions and occupational groups too.
Government programmes like progressive income tax, subsidised food rations for the poor, and targeted development schemes for economically backward regions are all ways the State pursues this Article 38 directive.