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The Preamble's promise to assure 'the dignity of the individual' is foundational to Fundamental Rights, particularly Article 21 (right to life and personal liberty), which the Supreme Court has interpreted to include privacy, health, environment, livelihood, and other dignity-enhancing rights.
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Answer: True
Dignity in Preamble and Fundamental Rights: (a) Preamble's dignity promise: Intrinsic worth of every person; foundation for rights protecting life, liberty, equality, (b) Article 21 operationalization: (i) Maneka Gandhi (1978): Procedure under Article 21 must be fair, just, reasonable - importing procedural due process, (ii) Francis Coralie (1981): Right to life means right to live with human dignity, including bare necessities, facilities for development, (iii) Puttaswamy (2017): Right to privacy intrinsic to dignity, autonomy under Article 21, (c) Dignity-enhancing rights recognized under Article 21: (i) Health: Right to emergency medical care (Parmanand Katara), occupational health (Consumer Education), (ii) Environment: Right to pollution-free environment (Subhash Kumar), sustainable development (Vellore Citizens), (iii) Livelihood: Right to livelihood integral to right to life (Olga Tellis), (iv) Privacy: Control over personal space, choices, data (Puttaswamy), (d) Interconnection with other rights: (i) Article 14: Dignity requires equality before law, non-discrimination, (ii) Article 19: Dignity requires freedoms of speech, expression, movement, (iii) Articles 25-28: Dignity requires freedom of religion, cultural rights, (e) Illustrates dignity-centric constitutionalism: Preamble's dignity promise foundational to Fundamental Rights; judicial interpretation expands Article 21 to include dignity-enhancing rights, ensuring constitutional vision of human worth realized in practice.