UPSC CDS GS Polity Questions Part 2

In Articles 15 (d) and (5), the Constitution gives the government the power to make special provisions ‘for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of citizens’. Article 15 (5) says that ‘Nothing in this Article or in sub-clause (g) of clause (a) of Article 19 shall prevent the State from making any special provision, by law, for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes of the citizens or for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes insofar as such special provisions relate to their admission to the educational institutions including the private educational institutions, whether aided or unaided by the State, other than the minority educational institutions referred to in clause (a) of Article 30