Question

3. In which year was the untouchability act
amended? what did the amendement change​

Answer 1

Answer:

This Act may be called the Untouchability (Offences) Amendment and Miscellaneous Provision Act, 1976.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Untouchability Act, came into force from 1st June 1955.This Act was passed in the Indian Parliament for the eradication of untouchability from the country.

The Act imposed a 6-month-imprisonment or a fine of Rs.500 for any person convicted of enforcing the disabilities of untouchability on anyone else in case of his first offence.

The offences covered under the Act are ones like preventing a person from entering a temple/place of worship or any other public place; preventing a person from drawing water from sacred water bodies, wells, etc.; preventing a person from using a ‘dharmashala’, restaurant, shop, hotel, hospital, public conveyance, educational institution, and any place of public entertainment.

It also covers the denial of the usage of roads, rivers, river banks, cremation grounds, wells, etc.

Other offences included are enforcing professional, trade or occupational disabilities, preventing a person from benefiting out of a charity, refusing any person from carrying out an occupation, refusing to sell goods/services to a person, injuring, molesting, excommunicating, boycotting or annoying a person on the basis of untouchability.

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