STATES AND MINORITIES 403
Clause 1
(1) Governments—Union and State—shall be required to assume financial responsibility for the higher education of the Scheduled Castes and shall be required to make adequate provisions in their budgets. Such Provisions shall form the first charge on the Education Budget of the Union and State Government.
(2) The responsibility for finding money for secondary and college education of the Scheduled Castes in India shall be upon the State Governments and the different States shall make a provision in their annual budgets for the said purpose in proportion to the population of the Scheduled Castes to the total budget of the States.
(3) The responsibility for finding money for foreign education of the Scheduled Castes shall be the responsibility of the Union Government and the Union Government shall make a provision of rupees 10 lakhs per year in its annual budget in that behalf.
(4) These special grants shall be without prejudice to the right of the Scheduled Castes to share in the expenditure incurred by the State Government for the advancement of primary education for the people of the State.
Clause 2
- The following provision shall be made in the Constitution of the Union Provision for New Government : Settlements. (For explanation. see pages 425-26) (i) There shall be a Settlement Commission under the new Constitution to hold uncultivated lands belonging to the State in trust for Settlement of the Scheduled Castes in separate villages.
(ii) The Union Government shall set apart annually a fund of Rs. 5 crores for the purpose of promoting the scheme of settlement.
(iii) That the Commission shall have the power to purchase any land offered for sale and use it for the said purpose.
- The Union Government shall from time to time pass such legislation as may be necessary for the Commission to carry out its functions.
PART III—S ANCTION FOR S AFEGUARDS AND A MENDMENT OF S AFEGUARDS
Clause 1
The Constitution of the United States shall provide that—
The United States of India undertakes to give the safeguards contained Sanction for in Article II Section IV a place in the Constitution and safeguards. make them a part of the Constitutional Law of India. (For explanation, see pages 426-28)