“Rights are certain advantageous conditions of social well-being indispensable to the true development of the citizen.”
In the light of this statement, which one of the following is the correct understanding of rights?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (c) Rights aim at both individual and social good.
The definition joins two ideas: rights are conditions of social well-being, and they are indispensable to the true development of the individual citizen. So rights serve both the individual and society.
- ✗ (a) It drops 'social well-being', which the definition names as what rights are conditions of.
- ✗ (b) It drops 'the true development of the citizen', the individual purpose in the definition.
- ✓ (c) Social well-being (society) and the citizen's development (individual) both appear in the definition.
- ✗ (d) It contradicts the definition by cutting rights off from social well-being.
Remember · When a definition names two beneficiaries, reject 'only' options that keep just one of them.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2017, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·