114 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
146 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 26,1948
(d) to administer such property in accordance
with law Freedom as 21. No person may be compelled to pay any to payment taxes, the proceeds of which are specifically approof taxes for priated in payment of expenses for the promotion or 5 promotion maintenance of any particular religion or religious and main- denomination. tenance of any particular religion or religious denomination. Freedom as to *22. (1) No religious instruction shall be provided attendance at by the State in any educational institution wholly religious ins- maintained out of State funds: 10 truction or Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply religious to an educational institution which is administered worship in by the State but has been established under any certain educa- endowment or trust which requires that religious tional institu- instruction shall be imparted in such institution. 15 tions.
(2) No person attending any educational institution recognised by the State or receiving aid out of State funds shall be required to take part in any religious instruction that may be imparted in such institution or to attend any religious worship that 20 may be conducted in such institution or in any premises attached thereto unless such person, or if such person is a minor, his guardian has given his consent thereto.
(3) Nothing in this article shall prevent any 25 community or denomination from providing religious instruction for pupils of that community or denomination in an educational institution outside its working hours.
Cultural and Educational Rights 30
Protection of 23. (1) Any section of the citizens residing in the interests of territory of India or any part thereof having a disminorities. tinct language, script and culture of its own shall have the right to conserve the same.
*This article follows the recommendation of the ad hoc
Committee.