Right guaranteed under the right to Equality is as below: 

(a) Prohibition of Discrimination: Article 15 prohibits the state to “discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.” No citizen shall be denied access to shops, public restaurants, hotels, places of public entertainment. Neither shall anyone be denied the use of wells, tanks, bathing- ghats and roads maintained wholly or partly out of the State funds. The State may make any special provision for women and children. Also, special provisions may be made for the advancement of socially and educationally backward class of citizens or for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. 

(b) Equality of Opportunity in matters of Public Employment: Article 16 ensures of equal opportunity for citizens “in a matter relating to employment or appointment to any office under the State.” There shall be no discrimination against any citizen on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, residence or any of them in respect of any employment under the State. The Article, however, undergoes three limitations i.e., 

1. The Parliament may make laws prescribing any requirement as to ‘residence’ for State employment. This is meant for posts which require a knowledge of the locality and of the language of the area, 

2. Reserving posts for members of any backward class which is not adequately represented in the services under the State, and 

3. There may be a law which requires that the holder of an office of any religious institution, shall be a person professing that particular religion.

(c) Abolition of Untouchability: Article 17 declares that “untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden.” The Untouchability Offences Act of 1955 provided penalties for preventing a person from entering a place of public worship or taking water from a tank, well or spring in common use. In 1976, the act was renamed as “the Protection of Civil Rights Act”, from “Untouchability Offences Act.”