(1)No person shall be excluded from any office of the University or from membership of any its authorities, or from admission to any degree, diploma, or other academic distinction or course of study on the grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, or political or other opinion:Provided that, the University may subject to the previous sanction of the State Government, maintain, affiliate or recognize any college or institution exclusively for women either for education, instruction or residence, or reserve for women or members of classes and communities which are educationally backward, places for the purposes of admission as students in any college or institution maintained or controlled by the University.
