Election of President and Vice-President of Janpad Panchayat

Election of President and Vice-President of Janpad Panchayat.—(1) The State Election Commission shall, after every election of Janpad Panchayat, immediately effect the election of President and Vice-President of Janpad Panchayat in such manner as may be prescribed. (2)

1. (i) The office of the President of Janpad Panchayat shall be reserved for—

1. (a) the Scheduled Castes; and
2. (b) the Scheduled Tribes; and the number of offices of President reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in a district shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of such offices in the district as the population of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in the district bears to the total population of the district: Provided that in a district other than the district consisting of the Scheduled Areas, for the purpose of calculation of the number of offices of President of Janpad Panchayat reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, the total population of the Scheduled Areas falling within the district and the population of the Scheduled Tribes therein shall be excluded: Provided further that not less than one-half of the total number of offices of President of Janpad Panchayat shall be reserved for women, subject to a minimum of one: Provided also that the offices reserved under this section shall be reserved in the Janpad Panchayats within the district by rotation in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided also that the Janpad Panchayats, where there is no population of Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, as the case may be, shall be excluded for the purpose of reservation of offices of President of such castes or such tribes.
   • (ii) In a district where the combined population of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes is less than fifty percent, twenty-five percent of the total offices of President of Janpad Panchayats within the district shall be reserved for the Other Backward Classes and such offices shall be allotted to the different Janpad Panchayats in the district by rotation by the Collector in such manner as may be prescribed.

1. (3) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections
2. (2) and (4), the President and Vice-President of Janpad Panchayat shall be elected by the elected members thereof and from amongst them.
3. (4) If the President of a Janpad Panchayat is not from the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes or Other Backward Classes, the Vice-President shall be elected from such castes or such tribes or such classes.
4. (5) If a President or Vice-President of a Janpad Panchayat becomes a member of either House of Parliament or a member of State Legislative Assembly or President or Vice-President of a Cooperative Society, he shall be deemed to have vacated his office as President or Vice-President, as the case may be, from the date on which he has become such member or President or Vice-President, and for the purposes of Section 38, it shall be deemed that a casual vacancy has occurred in such office.