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Article 337: Special provision with respect to educational grants for the benefit of Anglo-Indian Community

In plain words

For the first three financial years, the Union and States had to give the Anglo-Indian community the same educational grants as in the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 1948. The grants could fall by ten per cent every three years, and special concessions ended after ten years.

  • An institution got such grants only if at least forty per cent of its annual admissions were open to other communities.

A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.

Official text

During the first three financial years after the commencement of this Constitution, the same grants, if any, shall be made by the Union and by each State *** for the benefit of the Anglo-Indian community in respect of education as were made in the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, 1948. During every succeeding period of three years the grants may be less by ten per cent. than those for the immediately preceding period of three years:

Provided that at the end of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution such grants, to the extent to which they are a special concession to the Anglo-Indian community, shall cease:

Provided further that no educational institution shall be entitled to receive any grant under this article unless at least forty per cent. of the annual admissions therein are made available to members of communities other than the Anglo-Indian community.

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the official text of the Constitution of India. As amended up to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023. Text as on 10 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

Supreme Court judgments citing the article 337