Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Published vide Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 657 dated 17.4.2007. 2 professional educational institutions are permissible as regulatory measures aimed at protecting the interest of the student community as a whole and in maintaining required standards of professional education on non-exploitative terms in such institutions; And whereas, in the Constitution (Ninety-third Amendment) Act, 2005 a provision has been made as clause (5) to Article 15 of the Constitution as follows :- "(5) Nothing in this article 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."; And whereas, the Hon'ble Supreme Court in P.A. Inamdar case has observed that it is for the Central Government or for the State Governments, in absence of a central legislation, to come out with a detailed thought out legislation on the subject, which is long awaited; Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Orissa in the Fifty-eighth Year of Republic of India as follows :-