Human Rights in India Test 10

The Right to Information Act(RTI) is an Act of the Parliament of India "to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens" and replaces the erstwhile Freedom of Information Act,2002.The Act applies to all States and Union Territories of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Article 29 give the religious and linguistic minorities’ right to establish and manage educational institutions of their own. The minorities have been given the unrestricted rights to promote and preserve their own culture. Indeed, India is a country of diverse cultural groups and she is keen to preserve her cultural diversity.

Article 17 abolishes untouchability and its practice in any form. It gives teeth to the Untouchability Offences Act of 1955. Any person preventing the other from entering a place of public worship or using a public well, a public transport system, etc. can be punished by law. 

Child Labor is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on a part- or full-time basis. Indian law specifically defines 64 industries as hazardous and it is a criminal offence to employ children in such hazardous industries. In 2001, an estimated 1% of all child workers, or about 120,000 children in India were in a hazardous job. Notably, the Constitution of India prohibits child labour in hazardous industries such as firecracker industries, mining sites, etc. 

Article 16 of the Constitution of India in Part III provides for the equality of opportunity in matters of public employment. It provides provision for the reservation for the inadequately represented class of citizens or scheduled castes or scheduled tribes.

This law was passed by Parliament on 15 June 2005 and came fully into force on $$12  October  2005$$. The Act has increased transparency and greater accountability in the functioning of the government and hence played a significant role in exposing and reducing corruption to some extent.

In the Indian constitution, there are $$5$$ rights according to Article $$32$$ that empower the Supreme court to enforce the Fundamental right of an individual. Dr. B R Ambedkar, the chairman of the Drafting committee called Art. $$32$$ the Fundamental Right to Constitutional Remedies as the heart and soul of the Indian constitution. According to this right, a person can move the Supreme Court in case of violation of their fundamental rights.
Hence, option $$D$$ is the correct answer.

On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - 30 rights and freedoms that belong to all of us. Seven decades on and the rights they included continue to form the basis for all international human rights law. Hence, Option A is correct.

The correct meaning of the freedom of expression is express ones idea freely. All citizens have this fundamental right to expression of speech. The only exception one cannot say or do anything against the sovereignty of country.