The document discusses the educational provisions for minority populations in the Indian Constitution. It provides explicit guarantees to protect minority interests, including the right for any section of citizens to conserve their distinct language or culture. No citizen can be denied admission to public educational institutions based on religion, race, caste, or language. The Constitution also protects the rights of minorities to establish and administer their own educational institutions and receive government grants without discrimination. While the state can regulate educational standards, it cannot impose regulations regarding the medium of instruction that would restrict minority rights.

1. Unit-3 : Study of Constitution &
Education
Lecture-19: Education and the
Constitution
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3.  The beauty of a Country lies in the care it
takes of its minority populations. For
safeguarding the interests and the rights of
the minority communities in the society, the
Constitution of India has also provided
many educational provisions for them. The
major provisions are:
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4.  It provides explicit guarantee for protecting the
interests of minorities:
Any section of the citizens residing in the territory of
India or any part there of having a distinct language,
script or culture of its own shall have the right to
conserve the same.
No citizen shall be denied admission into any
educational institution maintained by the State or
receiving aid out of State funds on grounds only of
religion, race, caste, language or any of them.
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5.  It protects the rights of minorities to provide their own
education in their own language, certainly an
important part of language maintenance.
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6.  This article details this right along with protection against
discrimination in the receiving of government grants for
education:
 All minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have
the right to establish and administer educational institutions of
their choice.
 In making any law providing for the compulsory acquisition of
any property of any educational institution established and
administered by a minority, referred to in clause 1, the State shall
ensure that the amount fixed by or determined under such law
for the acquisition of such property is such as would not restrict
or abrogate the right guaranteed under that clause. The State
shall not, in granting aid to educational institutions,
discriminate against any educational institution that is under the
management of a minority, whether based on religion or
language.
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7.  This final clause does not keep the State from
regulating for educational standards, but protects
against regulations concerning medium of instruction,
a provision for minorities that has also been upheld in
the courts.
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8. Prepared By,
Dr.Prerna Mandhyan
Asst. Prof.
Dept. of Education
D. S. College, Katihar
Email id:
prerna.mandhyanpu@gmail.co
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