The Directive Principles of State Policy are criticised mainly on the following grounds:

1. Directive Principles are not properly classified: The Directive Principles of State Policy have not been properly classified in the Constitution. Such principles cannot be put at one place. All of them seem to be scattered. Some principles have been given at various places in different languages. Moreover, some necessary principles have been attached with necessary ones. Some of the principles are vague.

2. Directive Principles are not justifiable: The chapter on the Directive Principles has been carried down by the critics mainly on the ground that there is no legal force behind these. What cannot be made legally binding should not have been contained in the Constitution. The Government can very conveniently ignore them. None can compel the Government to implement them. As one writer has said "Non-justifiable and abstract Directive Principles which may be safely ignored by the legislature do not enhance the prestige of a written Constitution until confidence of the people, because it or a part of it cannot be enforced by any court".

3. The Directive Principles are vague and indefinite: Most of the principles are vague and indefinite. The wisdom of some of these principles is open to serious doubt. It should be remembered that Directive Principles are not eternal and that they change from time to-time. Man is a changing animal, so should the principles be. Then though the purpose of the inclusion of these principles in the Constitution has been the establishment of a welfare state in India, some important matters have been completely left out. For example, no principle lags down in clear terms as to what should be the relationship between the workers and the capitalists.

4. Neglecting of Fundamental Rights for the implementation of the Directive Principles: These principles are the fundamental bases of the policies of the state and these are ideals before the state and their fulfilment is the moral responsibility of the states. Therefore, the Government always have an excuse that the fundamental rights hinder the implementation of these principles. They do it for the sake of propaganda as-well-as for restricting the fundamental rights.