Article 27 - Indian Constitution [with Explanation]

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Article 27

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📜 Article 27

27. Freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion — No person shall be compelled to pay any taxes, the proceeds of which are specifically appropriated in payment of expenses for the promotion or maintenance of any particular religion or religious denomination.

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🔍 Explanation

Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, socio-cultural systems, shared practices and world views that link humanity to an order of existence.

Religion is usually a symbol, a sacred history or scripture, a system of worship and an ideology whose main purpose is to find the meaning of life, its origin or explanation of the universe, or to achieve spiritual transcendence.

Religious freedom is also mentioned in our Preamble and this shows its importance. Religious freedom should also be given priority. Because in a way, our values, our values, our social norms are largely governed by religion.

Perhaps that is why we chose the path of secularism so that all religions can work together to establish a multi-religious society with a common goal, to make India prosperous, to give India the prestige it deserves in the world, etc.

There are a total of four articles in the ‘ right to religious freedom ‘ (which you can see in the chart below), in this article we are going to understand the third article i.e. article 27.

Right to religious freedom ↗️
⚫ Article 25 – Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion ⚫ Article 26 – Freedom to manage religious affairs ⚫ Article 27 – Freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion ⚫ Article 28 – Freedom to attend religious education

| Article 27 – Freedom as to payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion

No person shall be compelled to pay such taxes, the proceeds of which are specifically appropriated for the promotion or maintenance of any particular religion or religious denomination.

As we know India follows secularism. That is, people can have their own religion here, but the state will not have any religion of its own.

Apart from this, religious freedom was guaranteed in the constitution, which is for individuals as well as for groups. It is against the policy of our constitution that money should be spent from the public fund for the promotion or maintenance of any particular religion or sect of a particular religion.

The state will not use public money (which comes in the form of tax) for any religious work, nor will the state promote any religion.

It means to say that either there is no religion in the eyes of the state or all religions are equal in its eyes. Anyway, the work of the state is public welfare and not religious welfare.

But as an exception remember that –

The state may levy fees to meet expenses for regulating the temporal administration of religious institutions. Article 27 does not apply in such cases as the levy of such fees does not cause any discrimination against any particular religion or religious sect.

So overall this is Article 27, I hope you have understood. To understand other article, you can use the link given below.

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