The right to equality
is one of the six rights that have
been granted to us. In the Indian
Constitution this right have been
described as:
The State shall not discriminate
against any citizen on grounds only of
religion, race, caste, sex, place of
birth or any of them.
No citizen shall, on grounds only of
religion, race, caste, sex, place of
birth or any of them, be subject to
any disability, liability, restriction
or condition with regard to access to
shops, public restaurants, hotels and
places of public entertainment; or the
use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats,
roads and places of public resort
maintained wholly or partly out of
State funds or dedicated to the use of
the general public.
Nothing in this article shall prevent
the State from making any special
provision for women and children.
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.
Equal opportunity for all:
There shall be equality of opportunity
for all citizens in matters relating
to employment or appointment to any
office under the State. 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.
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.
Nothing in this article shall prevent
the State from making any provision
for reservation in matters of
promotion 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. 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.
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.
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