Reservation of seats

Reservation of seats.-

1. (1) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every Municipal Corporation and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Municipal Corporation as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal Corporation area or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Municipal Corporation area bears to the total population of the Municipal Corporation area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different wards in the Municipal Corporation.
2. (2) Not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved under sub-section
3. (1) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes.
4. (3) Not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Municipal Corporation shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different wards in the Municipal Corporation: Provided that the offices of the Chairperson of the Municipal Corporation shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and women in such manner as the State Government may by law provide: Provided further that the reservation of seats under sub-sections
5. (1) and
6. (2) and the reservation of office of Chairperson (other than reservation for women) under the first proviso shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period specified in Article 334 of the Constitution of India: Provided also that nothing in this Part shall prevent the Legislature of the State from making any provision for reservation of seats in any Municipal Corporation or offices of Chairpersons in the Municipal Corporations in favour of backward class of citizens.