Fundamental
Right is contained in the Constitution Of India. It guarantees civil freedom such
that all Indians can lead their lives in peace and harmony as citizen of India.
Right to Equality is one of the Fundamental Rights in Indian constitution acts
as a guarantee that all Indian citizens have and can live their life with
freedom and peace. See the below Rights according to the our Constitute
Assembly, 26th November, 1949.
Equality before law
The
State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal
protection of the laws within the territory of India.
Prohibition of
discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth
1)
The
State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion,
race, caste, sex, and place of birth or any of them.
2)
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
(a) Access to shops,
public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment; or
(b) 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.
3)
Nothing
in this article shall prevent the State from 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.
Equality of
opportunity in matters of public 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 favor 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 favor 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.
Abolition of
Untouchability
“Untouchability’’
is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any
disability arising out of “Untouchability’’ shall be an offence punishable in
accordance with law.
Abolition of titles
(1)
No
title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the
State.
(2)
No
citizen of India shall accept any title from any foreign State.
(3)
No
person who is not a citizen of India shall, while he holds any office of profit
or trust under the State, accept without the consent of the President any title
from any foreign State.
(4)
No
person holding any office of profit or trust under the State shall, without the
consent of the President, accept any present, emolument, or office of any kind
from or under any foreign State.
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