Question

What is Article- 15 of the Indian constitution and explain how it is important in today's scenario?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Article 15 of the Indian Constitution prohibits discrimination of Indians on basis of religion, race, caste, or place of birth.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

Article 15 states that the state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of race, religion, caste, sex, and place of birth.

Explanation:

Article 15 states that the state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of race, religion, caste, sex, and place of birth.

The world "discrimination" refers to make adverse distinctions with regard to or to distinguish un-favourable from others while the term 'only' means that discrimination can be done on the basis of other grounds.

Fundamental Duties of the Citizens of India

The second provision of the article 15 says that no citizen shall be subjected to any disability, liability, restriction or condition on grounds of any religion, caste, race, sex, place of birth with regard to;

1. Access to shops, public restaurants, hotels, and places of public entertainment.
2. The use of wells, tanks, bathing Ghats, roads, and places of public resorts maintained wholly or partly by state funds or dedicated to the use of the general public.

Worth mentioning that this provision prohibits discrimination by both state and private individuals while the former provision prohibits discrimination only by the state.

There are three exceptions to this general rule of non-discrimination;

• The state is permitted to make any special provisions to women and children.  
• Example: Reservation of seats for women in the local bodies and provision of free education to children.
• The state is free to make special arrangements for socially and economically backward peoples or for Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes.
• Example: reservation of seats or fee concession in the public educational institutes.
• The state can make special provisions for the betterment of the socially and economically backward sections of the society or for the SCs and STs.  
• Example: Provisions regarding admission in the educational institutions in the private institutes, whether aided or unaided by the state.