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Constitutional and Legislative Protection of Right to Education of Minorities in India | Original Article

Rahul Kumar Yadav*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

In Ancient time India was considered to be a land of minorities from previous times which consists of various groups like religious, racial, cultural and linguistic. The people of India at that time were divided by difference of race, religion, language, culture and socio-economic factors. One of the important tasks of the constitution makers was to construct a constitutional arrangement which protects maximum number of minorities from the evil of discrimination and promises to safeguard those characteristics which have divided them apart from the rest. The uncertain idea of rights of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions promised in good faith to reassure India’s agitated minorities at the time of partition. It has now taken such root in India that it has become the prime source of inequality among the people of this Country. This article will deal with the present scenario of the constitutional and legislative protection of minority groups. Article 30 of the Indian constitution proclaims that (1) All minorities, whether or not they are based on religion or on language, they shall have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their own choice. (2) The state shall not discriminate against any institution in granting aid to them on the bottom that it's beneath the management of a minority, whether or not it's supported faith or language. The essence of article 30 is that it is intended to ensure are not discriminated against or denied equal treatment. But in practice it has started to mean that non-minority institutions can be denied the right to establish and administer institutions in their own way. This article deals with the state of protection given to the minorities to the state of going towards autonomy of institutions.