Composition of Councils

(1) Save as otherwise provided by this Act, every Council shall consist of Councillors elected at ward elections; Provided that— (1) in every Council, no less than (1/3) seats shall be reserved for women; (2) in every Council, seat shall also be reserved for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Class and for woman belonging to Scheculed Caste, as the case may be, the the Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Class as provided in sub-section (2) (2) The Director shall from time to time by an order published in the Official Gazette fix for each municipal area— (a) the number of elected Councillors in accordance with the following table: Class of Municipal area: Number of elected Councillors (i) ‘A’ Class: The minimum number of elected Councillors shall be 15, and for every 3,000 of the population or part thereof above 50,000 there shall be one additional elected Councillor, so, however, that the total number of elected Councillors shall not exceed 20; (ii) ‘B’ Class: The minimum number of elected Councillor shall be 10, and for every 3,000 of the population or part thereof above 10,000 there shall be one additional elected Councillor, so, however, that the total number of elected Councillors shall not exceed 15; (iii) ‘C’ Class: The number of elected Councillors shall be 10. (b) the number of seats, if any, to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or the Other Backward Class so that such number shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the number of elected Councillors as the population of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or of the Other Backward Class in the municipal area bears to the total population of that area and not less than one-third of such seats shall be reserved for women and such seats shall be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a municipal area. (c) the number of seats for the office of Chairperson in the Council for Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes or the Other Backward Class and women so that such number will bear as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the number of elected Councillors as the population of the scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or of the Other Backward Class in the municipal area bears to the total population of that area and such seats shall be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Council. (3) The reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made by an order under sub-section (2) shall cease to have effect when the reservation of seats for those Castes and Tribes in the House of the People ceases to have effect under the Constitution of India: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall render any person elected to any such reserved seat ineligible to continue as a Councillor during the term of office for which he was duly elected by reason only of the fact that the reservation of seats has so ceased to have effect. (4) Every order under sub-section (2) shall take effect for the purposes of the next general election of the Council immediately following after the date of the order. (5) [omitted]