Indian Constitution Educational Provisions

The constitution of India came into force in 1950 and the country became a republic. It guarantees freedom, equality, justice and fraternity to its citizen. Of late, education has also become a fundamental right of a citizen along with the well known rights of this category like right to speech, right to freedom etc. This article lists the rights under education in our constitution.

Indian Constitution Educational Provisions:

·        Article 45: Free and compulsory education for all children below the age of 14 years.

·        Article 46: The federal government is responsible for the economic and educational development of the Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes.

·        Article 15: The state should ensure that no discrimination is shown to citizen on the grounds of gender and special provisions should be made for women and their education.

·        Article 25:  As India is a secular country, every citizen enjoys right to conscience and the right to follow and profess their religion.

·        Article 28: It is not required for anyone attending any educational institution run by the state to take part in any religious instruction or attend any religious worship in that institution.

·        Article 29: No citizen can be denied admission into any state run educational institution on the basis of language, religion, caste, race or any one of them.

·        Article 30: All minorities based on religion or language shall have right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

·        Article 350: Instructions at the primary stage can be provided to children in their mother tongue in linguistic minority groups.

·        Article 351: It is the responsibility of the center to promote Hindi as the national language.

Conclusion: Education is a concurrent subject as it appears in the List III of the constitution. It means that in the matters of education both center and state have the power to legislate or make laws.