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state article 17 in the right to equlit in the Indian constitution

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Right to equality - Our Constitution lays down that there will be social equality and no person shall be discriminated on the basis of caste, colour, creed, sex, religion or language. The State can make special provisions like Protective Discrimination. It also ensures equality of opportunity in matters of public employment and entrusts the State to make provision for the reservation of appointments or posts for backward classes. The practice of untouchability has been abolished under the Right to Equality.

Protective Discrimination means that the State can make special provisions to protect the interest of the socially and economically backward classes. The government can implement special schemes and measures so that they can get opportunity to occupy and forge new social relations with others, irrespective of caste consideration.

Untouchability is an inhuman product of the caste system. It is a form of social isolation of certain castes/communities. Dalits face certain prohibitions from the dominant castes. They are prohibited from eating with the dominant caste members, marrying out of their own caste or entering into the village, etc.




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