Which part of article 15 enabled access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and palaces of public entertainment?

The correct answer is 15(2).

Key Points

• Article 15: This Article guarantees prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth by the State. It also ensures equality in educational opportunities in India.
• Article 15(1) prohibits the State to discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.
• Article 15 (2) prohibits citizens on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to
  • access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and palaces of public entertainment;
  • or the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the general public
• Article 15(3) empowered the state to make special provisions for the welfare of women and children
• ARTICLE 15 (4): It enabled the government to make special provisions for the advancement of backward classes including the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). It also ensures the reservation in educational institutes for the SCs and the STs.