Question

describe the efforts made in India for removal of untouchability

Answer 1

(ii) Article 16:

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, caste, race, 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.

(iii) Article 17:

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 the law

Answer 2

The very basis of the administration that is the Constitution of India does not tolerate such discrimination. Its whole structure is based on treating all citizen of this country 
 1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, caste, sex, 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 subjects to any disability, liability, restriction 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 dedicated to the use of the general public.

GOVERNMENT made some rules to remove untouchability are :-

The Government will develop the economic and educational interest of the weakest classes, especially Scheduled Castes with special protections and will protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation.”

Provisions for eradication of untouchability as embodied in Article-46 of the Constitution of India: the State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation”

Article 146 provides that in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa there shall be a Minister in charge of Tribal Welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.