Section 7: University open to all classes, castes and creeds.

The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University Act, 1989.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 20 of 1989

(1) The University shall be open to persons of either sex and of whatever race, creed, caste or class and it shall not be lawful for the University to adopt or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession or political or other opinion in order to entitle him to be appointed as a teacher of the University or to hold any other office therein or admitted as a student in the University or to graduate thereat, or to enjoy or exercise any privilege thereof.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to prevent the University from making any special provisions for the appointment or admission of women or of persons belonging to the weaker sections of the society, and in particular, of persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes [, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes], in accordance with the directives, if any, given from time to time by the State Government.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University Act, 1989.
Section	7
Marginal note	University open to all classes, castes and creeds.
Jurisdiction	State of Maharashtra
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Mah. 7 of 1993. These words were substituted for the words "or Scheduled Tribes" by Mah. 7 of 1993, s. 15.

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