ALL INDIA SCHEDULED CASTES FEDERATION 457
PART I
Date of Coming into Force
ARTICLE I
This Constitution may be called the CONSTITUTION OF THE ALL INDIA SCHEDULED CASTES FEDERATION.
It shall, except as specified in Parts IX and X come into force on the 1st of May, 1957.
PART II
Aims, Objects and Powers
ARTICLE II
- The aims and objects of the Federation are :
(i) to organise the Scheduled Castes of India, to educate them and to agitate for their social, economic and political freedom and to make them strive for their well being and advancement;
(ii) to secure for them equality of opportunity and thereby enable them to achieve equal status with their fellow citizens in all walks of life ;
(iii) to engage itself in organising the Peasantry, the landless labourers and the workers in factories and other wage-earners ;
(iv) to undertake educational activities such as starting of Schools and teaching them arts and crafts;
(v) to undertake all activities for the moral and spiritual elevation of the Scheduled Castes: and
(vi) to keep a record of all cases of tyrannies and oppressions practised upon the Scheduled Castes in different parts of the Country.
- The Powers of the Federation are :
(i) to purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire property for the Federation and to invest and deal with the moneys of the Federation in such manner as may from time to time be determined ;
(ii) to construct, maintain, rebuild, repair, alter, replace or reinstate houses, buildings, or works for the purposes of the Federation;