Article 16 Equality of Opportunity in Matters of Public Employment
Article 16 Equality of Opportunity in Matters of Public Employment Equality of Opportunity in matters of Public Employment Art. 16 of the Indian Constitution lay down the provisions for the equality of opportunity in matters of public employment. Similar to that of art.15, this article is also available only to the citizens of India. Art. 16 (1) is a general provision which states that State shall provide equal opportunities to all the citizens in matters of employment or appointment under any office of the State. The state can though make reasonable classification but any arbitrariness on the behalf of the state for opportunity in public employment shall be construed as violation of art.14&16 of the Constitution . Art. 16 (2) provides that the state shall not discriminate any of the citizen in the matters of public employment on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, decent, place or birth or resident or any of them. It does not allow c...