In the modern India, when there are inherent inequalities in our societies, the importance of human rights, their even changing nature and their adoption in our constitution in part III thereof becomes more relevant day by day. In the Constituent Assembly, Dr Ambedkar had emphasized that the object of the human rights recognised in Part III is two fold- first that every citizen must be in a position to claim those rights and secondly, they must be binding upon and honored by every authority. Even otherwise, our constitutional history shows the importance of human rights and their ever-expanding scope where even those rights such as right to privacy or right to education which were not recognised earlier as a human right have assumed so much importance now. Further, Right to Property which is even recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is now downgraded to a mere constitutional right. It is thus evident that the hu In the modern India, when there are inherent inequalities in our societies, the importance of human rights, their even changing nature and their adoption in our constitution in part III thereof becomes more relevant day by day. In the Constituent Assembly, Dr Ambedkar had emphasized that the object of the human rights recognised in Part III is two fold- first that every citizen must be in a position to claim those rights and secondly, they must be binding upon and honored by every authority. Even otherwise, our constitutional history shows the importance of human rights and their ever-expanding scope where even those rights such as right to privacy or right to education which were not recognised earlier as a human right have assumed so much importance now. Further, Right to Property which is even recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is now downgraded to a mere constitutional right. It is thus evident that the human rights have to be understood as dynamic and ever-evolving in nature and not rigid as was presumed earlier. Human rights have to be understood as dynamic and ever-evolving in nature and not rigid as was presumed earlier.