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  2. List of amendments of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    Enable continuance of 69% reservation in Tamil Nadu by including the relevant Tamil Nadu Act under 9th Schedule of the constitution. 77th: Amend article 16. [85] 17 June 1995 A technical amendment to protect reservation to SCs and STs Employees in promotions. 78th: Amend schedule 9. [86] 30 August 1995 Place land reform acts and amendments to ...

  3. Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. [2] [3] The document lays down the framework that demarcates fundamental political code, structure, procedures, powers, and duties of government institutions and sets out fundamental rights, directive principles, and the duties of citizens. It is the longest written national constitution in ...

  4. Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India

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    Status: In force. The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1971, enables Parliament to dilute Fundamental Rights through Amendments of the Constitution. It also amended article 368 to provide expressly that Parliament has power to amend any provision of the ...

  5. Fundamental rights in India - Wikipedia

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    The words sovereignty and integrity are the qualities to be cultivated/emulated by Indian people as urged by the Constitution but not used related to the territory of India. Article 1 of Part 1 of the Indian constitution, defines India (Bharat) as a Union of states. In a nutshell, India "is its people, not its land", as enshrined in the ...

  6. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009

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    Present Act has its history in the drafting of the Indian constitution at the time of Independence [6] but is more specifically to the Constitutional Amendment of 2002 that included the Article 21A in the Indian constitution making Education a fundamental Right. This amendment, however, specified the need for a legislation to describe the mode ...

  7. Public interest litigation in India - Wikipedia

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    The concept of public interest litigation (PIL) is suited to the principles enshrined in Article 39A [a] of the Constitution of India to protect and deliver prompt social justice with the help of law. Before the 1980s, only the aggrieved party could approach the courts for justice. After the emergency era the high court reached out to the ...

  8. Amendment of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Amending the Constitution of India is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India. This procedure ensures the sanctity of the Constitution of India and keeps a check on arbitrary power of ...

  9. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities ...

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    The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (POA), 1989 was thus passed on 11 September 1989. The Act was notified in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3 (ii), dated 29 January 1990 (notification No. S.O. 106 (E)) and came into force on 30 January 1990. The rules were notified on 31 March 1995.