Amendment of Section 25

In Section 25 of the Act,-

1. (a) for clause (i), the following shall be substituted, namely,- "(i) such number of offices of Pradhan of Gram Panchayat in the district for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the number of offices so reserved shall bear as nearly as may be the same proportion to the total number of offices in the district as the population of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes in the district bears to the total population of the district.";
2. (b) in clause (ii), the words "and Up-Pradhan, as the case may be", shall be deleted,