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The Cultural and Educational Rights are provided under Article 29 and Article 30. These articles upheld the individual’s right to protect their distinct language, script, and culture. It also provides protection against state-sponsored discrimination on the ground of religion, race, caste, and language.

Article 29-

• Article 29(1): It states that the citizens of India who reside in India having a distinct culture, language, and script, shall have the right to conserve their culture and language.
• This right is absolute, having no exception. There can not be any ‘reasonable restrictions’ on this right.
• Article 29(2): Admission to educational institutions can not be denied based on race, religion, caste, language, etc. if it is a state institution or an institution funded by the state’s aid. This individual’s rights, not a community right.

Article 30-

• Under this right the minority communities were empowered to form and govern their own educational institutions.
• This article is also known as the “Charter of Educational Rights”.
• Article 30(1): It provides for all religious and linguistic minorities the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice. It is available to religious and linguistic minorities only.
• As per the 42nd Constitutional Amendment. If such institutions have been acquired by the government, then the government is duly bound to give the appropriate compensation to the institution.
• Article 30(2): It provides that, while granting the aid to educational institutions, the state can not discriminate on the ground that a particular institution is administered by a religious or linguistic group.

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Article 29 and 30 of Indian Constitution deals with cultural and educational rights of the minorities.

Article 29 talks about - Protection of interest of minorities

Article 29(1)- This provides any section of the citizens residing in India having a distinct culture, language, or script, the right to conserve their culture, language and script.

Article 29(2)- The State shall not deny admission into educational institutes maintained by it or those that receive aid from it to any person based only on race, religion, caste, language, or any of them.

Article 30 talks about Rights of Minorities to establish and administer educational institutions.

Article 30(1)-  All religious and linguistic minorities have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

Article 30(2)- The State shall not, when granting aid to educational institutions, discriminate against any educational institution on the ground that it is under the management of a minority, whether based on religion or language.

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Articles 29 and 30 guarantee certain right to the minorities.

Article 29

It protects the interests of the minorities by making a provision that any citizen / section of citizens having a distinct language, script or culture have the right to conserve the same.

It also mandates that no discrimination would be done on the ground of religion, race, caste, language or any of them.

Article 30

It mandates that all minorities, whether based on religion or language, shall have the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

It is called as Charter of Education Rights.

Madarsas are administrated by the Article 30.

This article also provides an absolute right to the minorities that they can establish their own linguistic and religious institutions and at the same time can also claim for grant-in-aid without any discrimination.

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There are several articles and sections under the Indian civil code which provides special provisions and reservation for minorities and other backward classes in various sectors.

Various legislations has been passed under various sections in the supreme Court which signifies the rules for minorities and under privileged classes which have been modified from time to time starting back from 1950.

The minorities group include- schedule caste, scheduled tribe, economically weaker sections, and other backward classes in general.

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The article 29 of the Indian Constitution eat the same culture culture right of the minorities communities in India. Article 29 provides the minorities to make a provision for a citizen or a section of citizens with distinct language culture I have the right  to protect and concerve the same.article 29 mandates that no discrimination would be done on the basis of religion caste aur race aur language or any of them.

Article 30 of Indian constitution preserve the right of education to set up educational institution for the minorities.this right give the minorities to form and established and govern their own educational institution of their choice in India.all religious and linguistic minorities have the right to set up their own educational institutions in any of the the corner of India of their choice of preference.

The rights secured are the necessary consequence of the declaration contained in the Preamble to the Constitution, wherein the people of India solemnly resolved, to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic and to secure to themselves justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

Part 2 of the Indian constitution provides for recognition citizenship of people. No person shall be a citizen of India by virtue of article 5, or be deemed to be a citizen of India by virtue of article 6 or article 8, if he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of any foreign State.