making any special provision for women and children.
(4) Nothing in this article or in clause (2) of article
29 shall prevent the State from making any special
provision for the advancement of any socially and
educationally backward classes of citizens or for the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
(5) Nothing in this article or in sub-clause (g) of clause
(1) of article 19 shall prevent the State from making
any special provision, by law, for the advancement of
any socially and educationally backward classes of
citizens or for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled
Tribes in so far as such special provisions relate to their
admission to educational institutions including private
educational institutions, whether aided or unaided
by the State, other than the minority educational
institutions referred to in clause (1) of article 30.
(6) Nothing in this article or sub-clause (g) of clause (1)
of article 19 or clause (2) of article 29 shall prevent the
State from making,—
(a) any special provision for the advancement of any
economically weaker sections of citizens other than
the classes mentioned in clauses (4) and (5); and
(b) any special provision for the advancement of any
economically weaker sections of citizens other than
the classes mentioned in clauses (4) and (5) in so far
as such special provisions relate to their admission to
educational institutions including private educational
institutions, whether aided or unaided by the State,
other than the minority educational institutions
referred to in clause (1) of article 30, which in the
case of reservation would be in addition to the existing
reservations and subject to a maximum of ten per
cent. of the total seats in each category.
Explanation.— For the purposes of this article and
article 16, “economically weaker sections” shall be
such as may be notified by the State from time to time
on the basis of family income and other indicators of
economic disadvantage.
Article 16. Equality of opportunity in matters of public
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employment: (1) There shall be equality of opportunity
for all citizens in matters relating to employment or
appointment to any office under the State.
(2) No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race,
caste, sex, descent, place of birth, residence or any
of them, be ineligible for, or discriminated against in
respect of, any employment or office under the State.
(3) Nothing in this article shall prevent Parliament
from making any law prescribing, in regard to a
class or classes of employment or appointment to
an office[under the Government of, or any local or
other authority within, a State or Union territory, any
requirement as to residence within that State or Union
territory] prior to such employment or appointment.
(4) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State
from making any provision for the reservation of
appointments or posts in favour of any backward
class of citizens which, in the opinion of the State, is
not adequately represented in the services under the
State.
[(4A) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State
from making any provision for reservation[in matters
of promotion, with consequential seniority, to any
class] or classes of posts in the services under the
State in favour of the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes which, in the opinion of the State,
are not adequately represented in the services under
the State.]
[(4B) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State
from considering any unfilled vacancies of a year
which are reserved for being filled up in that year in
accordance with any provision for reservation made
under clause (4) or clause (4A) as a separate class
of vacancies to be filled up in any succeeding year
or years and such class of vacancies shall not be
considered together with the vacancies of the year
in which they are being filled up for determining the
ceiling of fifty per cent. reservation on total number of
vacancies
of that year.]
(5) Nothing in this article shall affect the operation
of any law which provides that the incumbent of an
office in connection with the affairs of any religious
or denominational institution or any member of the
governing body thereof shall be a person professing
a particular religion or belonging to a particular
denomination.
[(6) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State
from making any provision for the reservation of
appointments or posts in favour of any economically
weaker sections of citizens other than the classes
mentioned in clause (4), in addition to the existing
reservation and subject to a maximum of ten percent
of the posts in each category.]
Article 21. Protection of life and personal liberty.—No
person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty
except according to procedure established by law.
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Article 29. Protection of interests of minorities.—
(1) Any section of the citizens residing in the territory
of India or any part thereof having a distinct language,
script or culture of its own shall have the right to
conserve the same.
(2) No citizen shall be denied admission into any
educational institution maintained by the State or
receiving aid out of State funds on grounds only of
religion, race, caste, language or any of them.
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Article 30. Right of minorities to establish and
administer educational institutions.—(1) All minorities,
whether based on religion or language, shall have
the right to establish and administer educational
institutions of their choice.
1[(1A) In making any law providing for the compulsory
acquisition of any property of an educational
institution established and administered by a minority,
referred to in clause (1), the State shall ensure that the
amount fixed by or determined under such law for
the acquisition of such property is such as would not
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