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No person shall be excluded from holding any office in the University or from membership of any of the authorities of the University or from admission to any degree, diploma or other distinction or course of study, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them and it shall not adopt or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession in order to entitle him to be admitted thereto as a teacher or student or to hold any office therein or to qualify for any degree, diploma or other distinction or to enjoy or exercise any of the privileges of the University: Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the University- (i) from maintaining any centre or institution, intended exclusively for women, either for education, instruction or residence; and (ii) from making special provisions in any study centre for admission of women, weaker sections of the people and in particular the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and backward classes.