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Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Chapter 8

Title: Non-discrimination

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....for the blind or for persons with low vision; (e) devising appropriate symbols of disability; (f) warning signals at appropriate places. Section 46 - Non-discrimination in the built environment The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) ramps in public buildings; (b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users; (c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts; (d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centres and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions. Section 47 - Non-discrimination in Government employment (1) No establishment shall dispense with, or reduce in rank, an employee who acquires a disability during his service: Provided that, if an employee, after acquiring disability is not suitable for the post he was holding, could be shifted to some other post with the same pay scale and service benefits: Provided further that if it is not possible to adjust the employee against any post, he may be kept on a supernumerary post until a suitable post is available or he attains the age of superannuation, whichever is earlier. (2).....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 97A

Title: Prohibition Against Discrimination

State: Central

Year: 1958

1 [97A. Prohibition against discrimination There shall be no discrimination between seamen, (a) on the ground of their membership or lack of membership in any particular union purporting to represent the interests of seamen and membership in such union shall not be pre-requisite condition; (b) on the basis of training institute from where they obtained training or place of issue of their continuous discharge certificates, for their recruitment and engagement on board any ship.] _________________________ 1. Inserted by The Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 2002 (63 Of 2002).

Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Chapter III

Title: Provisions with Respect to Discrimination, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1935

.....to them. (2) A Commission so appointed shall investigate the matters referred to them and present to the Governor-General a report setting out the facts as found by them and making such recommendations as they think proper. (3) If it appears to the Governor-General upon consideration of the Commissioner's report that anything therein contained requires explanation, or that he needs guidance upon any point not originally referred by him tothe Commission, he may again refer the matter to the Commission for furtherinvestigation and a further report. (4) For the purpose of assisting a Commission appointed under this section in investigating any matters referred to them, the 1 [Federal] Court, if requested by the Commission so to do, shall make such orders and issue such letters of request for the purposes of the proceedings of the Commission as they may make or issue in the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court. (5) After considering any report made to him by the Commission, the Governor-General shall give such decision and make such order, if any, in the matter of the complaint as he may deem proper: 2 [Provided that if, before the Governor-General has given any.....

Government of India Act, 1935 [Repealed] Section 193

Title: Obligation of Railway Authority and Federated States to Afford Mutual Traffic Facilities and to Avoid Unfair Discrimination, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1935

1 [193. Obligation of Railway Authority and Federated States to Afford Mutual TrafficFacilities and to Avoid Unfair Discrimination, etc. (1) It shall be the duty of the Authority and everyFederated State so to exercise their powers in relation to the railways withwhich they are respectively concerned as to afford all reasonable facilities forthe receiving, fonvarding, and delivering of traffic upon and from, thoserailways, including the receiving, forwarding and delivering of through rates,and as to secure that there shall be between one railway system and another nounfair discrimination, by the granting of undue preferences or otherwise, and nounfair or uneconomic competition. (2) Any complaint by the Authority against a FederatedState or by a Federated State against the Authority on the ground that theprovisions of the preceding sub-section have not been complied with shall bemade to and determined by the Railway Tribunal. ________________________ 1. Omitted, by the India (Provisional Constitution)Order, 1947.

Disaster Management Act, 2005 Section 61

Title: Prohibition Against Discrimination

State: Central

Year: 2005

While providing compensation and relief to the victims of disaster, there shall be no discrimination on the ground of sex, caste, community, descent or religion.

Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976) Section 5

Title: No Discrimination to Be Made While Recruiting Men and Women Workers

State: Central

Year: 1976

On and from the commencement of this Act, no employer shall while making recruitment for the sarne work or work of a similar nature, 1[or in any condition of service subsequent to recruitment such as promotions, training or transfer,] make any discrimination against women except where the employment of women in such work is prohibited or restricted by or under any law for the time being in force: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not affect any priority or reservation for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, ex-servicemen, retrenched employees or any other class or category of persons in the matter of recruitment to the posts in an establishment or employment. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 49 of 1987, see. 2 (w.e.f. 16-12-1987):

Constitution of India Article 15

Title: Prohibition of Discrimination on Grounds of Religion, Race, Caste, Sex or Place of Birth

State: Central

Year: 1950

.....or in sub-clause (g) of clause (1) 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 citizens or for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in so far as such special provisions relate to their admission to educational institutions including private educational institutions, whether aided or unaided by the State, other than the minority educational institutions referred to in clause (1) of article 30. ____________________________ 1. Added by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, section. 2. 2. Inserted vide Constitution Ninety Third Amendment Act, 2005 S.2,(w.e.f. 20.1.2006)

Karnataka Warehouses Act, 1961 Section 19

Title: Discrimination Prohibited

State: Karnataka

Year: 1961

No warehouseman shall, in the conduct of his business, discriminate between persons desiring to avail themselves of the facilities of his warehouse: Provided that a warehouseman shall show such preference to co-operative societies in the State and allow them such concessional rates as may be prescribed.

Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997 Section 69

Title: Removal of Discrimination in the Distribution of Prasada or Theertha

State: Karnataka

Year: 1997

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any text, rule of interpretation of Hindu Law or any custom or usage forming part of the law or in any other law or in any decree of court, no discrimination shall be made in the distribution of prasada or theertha in any temple or other religious place on grounds only of caste, sex, place of birth, or any of them. Explanation.--In this section,- (a) 'Prasada' means any cooked rice or other eatable, any fruits, flower, leaf, vibuthi, kumkuma, tulsi, bilwari, turmeric, sandal paste or other like thing distributed as prasada by whatsoever name called; (b) 'Theertha' means sacred water, jaggery water or milk and includes other like things distributed as theertha in a temple by whatsoever name called; (2) Nothing contained in this Act shall, save as otherwise provided in sub-section (1) and in clause (2) of Article 25 of the Constitution, be deemed to confer any power or impose any duty in contravention of the rights conferred on any religious denomination or any section thereof by Article 26 of the Constitution.

Air Corporations Act, 1953 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1953

.....assemble or recondition aircraft, vehicles or other machines and parts, accessories and instruments thereof or therefore and also to manufacture such parts, accessories and instruments, whether the aircraft, vehicles or other machines are owned by the Corporation or by any other person; (f) to enter into and perform all such contracts as are calculated to further the efficient performance of its duties and the exercise of its powers under this Act; (g) to perform any functions as agent or contractor in relation to an air transport service operated by any other person; (h) with the previous approval of the Central Government, to enter into agreements with any person engaged in air transportation with a view to enabling such person to provide air transport services on behalf of or in association with the Corporation; (i) with the previous approval of the Central Government, to determine and levy fares and freight rates and other charges for or in respect of the carriage of passengers and goods on air transport services operated by it; 9[(ii) to make such grants as it thinks fit as contribution or donation, in furtherance of the interests of the Corporation, to any.....