https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173091 Article 16(3) permits Parliament to prescribe residence requirements for public employment only within a State or Union territory, and it must be construed narrowly as an exception to the guarantees of equality of opportunity and non-discrimination in public employment. The provision does not extend to residence in a particular part of a State, such as a region, district, city or town. On that basis, the statutory and rule-based residence qualification applied to Telengana posts was beyond constitutional power and was invalid. en-us Fri, 28 Mar 1969 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:35:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173091 Article 16(3) permits Parliament to prescribe residence requirements for public employment only within a State or Union territory, and it must be construed narrowly as an exception to the guarantees of equality of opportunity and non-discrimination in public employment. The provision does not extend to residence in a particular part of a State, such as a region, district, city or town. On that basis, the statutory and rule-based residence qualification applied to Telengana posts was beyond constitutional power and was invalid. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 28 Mar 1969 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173091