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7                      THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                        (Part III.—Fundamental Rights)
               (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.
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         [(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.]                                   e
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         [(5) Nothing in this article or in sub-clause (g) of clause (1) of article 19
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shall prevent the State from making any special provision, by law, for the
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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
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provisions relate to their admission to educational institutions including private
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educational institutions, whether aided or unaided by the State, other than the
minority educational institutions referred to in clause (1) of article 30.]
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         [(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.


1. Added by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, s. 2 (w.e.f. 18-6-1951).
2. Ins. by the Constitution (Ninety-third Amendment) Act, 2005, s. 2 (w.e.f. 20-1-2006).
3. Ins. by the Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019, s. 2
   (w.e.f. 14-1-2019).

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