The government implements Directive Principles in the following ways:-

(i) The greatest progress in carrying out the Directives has taken place as regards the Directive Article 30(b); that the State should secure that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to sub-serve the common good.In an agrarian country like India the main item of material resources is no doubt agricultural. In order to prevent a concentration of land holdings even in hands of the actual cultivators, legislation has been enacted in many of the States fixing a ceiling i.e. a maximum area of land which may be held by an individual owner,

(ii) A large number of laws have been enacted to implement the Directive in Article 40 to organise village panchayats and endow them with powers of self-government,

(iii) For the promotion of cottage indus­tries (Article 43), which is a State subject, the Central Government has established several Boards to help the State Governments in the matter of finance, marketing and the like;

(iv) Legislation for compulsory primary education (Article 45) has been enacted in most of the States and Union Territo­ries.

(v) For raising the standard of living (Article 47) particularly of the rural population, the Govern­ment of India launched its Community Development Project in 1952.

(vi) Though legislation relating to prohibition of intoxicating drinks and drugs (Article 47) had taken place in some of the Provinces long before the Constitution came into being, not much of effective work had been done until, in pursuance of the Directive in the Constitution, the Planning Commission took up the matter and drew up a comprehensive scheme through its Prohibition Enquiry Committee.