Composition of Corporation

24[(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) the Corporation shall consist of such number of elected members as may be notified from time to time by the Government in the *Telangana Gazette, in accordance with such principles as may be prescribed.]

25[(1A) Every member of the Legislative Assembly of the State and every member of the House of the People representing a 26[constituency] of which the Corporation or a portion thereof forms part, 27[and every member of the Council of the State registered as an elector within the area of the Municipal Corporation 28[and every Member of the Legislative Council of the State registered as an elector within the area of the Municipal Corporation 29[XXX]] shall be ex-officio councillor of the Corporation]:

Provided that a Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the House of the People representing a 30[constituency] which comprises a portion of the Corporation and a part of any municipality or municipalities, shall be ex-officio Councillor of either the Corporation or of one such municipalities, which he chooses; and he shall also have the right to take part in the proceedings of any meetings of the other municipal councils or Corporation, as the case may be, within the 30[constituency], but shall not be entitled to vote at any such meeting.]

31[(1-B) In addition to the members referred to in sub-sections (1) and (1-A) three persons having special knowledge or experience in Municipal Administration of whom one shall be woman, be co-opted as members of the Corporation in the prescribed manner by the members of the Corporation from among the persons who are registered voters in the Corporation and who are not less than twenty-one years of age:

Provided that the members co-opted under this sub-section shall have the right to speak in and otherwise to take part in the meetings of the Corporation but shall not have right to vote.

(1-C) Two persons belonging to the minorities of whom one shall be woman be co-opted as members of the Corporation in prescribed manner by the members of the Corporation specified in sub-sections (1) and (1-A) from among the persons who are registered voters in the Corporation and who are not less than twenty-one years of age:

Provided that the members co-opted under this sub-section shall have the right to speak in and otherwise to take part in the meetings of the Corporation but shall not have right to vote.]

32[(1-D)] No person shall be a member in more than one of the categories specified in 33[sub-sections (1), (1A), (1B) and (1C)]. A person who is or becomes a member of the Corporation in more than one such category shall, by notice in writing signed by him and delivered to the Commissioner, within fifteen days from the date on which he so becomes a member, intimate in which one of the said categories he wishes to serve, and thereupon he shall cease to be the member in the other category. In default of such intimation within the aforesaid period, his membership in the Corporation in the category acquired earlier shall, and his membership acquired later in the other category shall not, cease at the expiration of such period. The intimation given under this sub-section shall be final and irrecoverable.

34[(2) In the Corporation out of the total strength of elected members, the Government shall, subject to the rules as may be prescribed, by notification reserve,-

1. (a) such number of seats to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as may be determined by them, subject to the condition that 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 to the Corporation, as the population of the Scheduled Castes, as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes in the Corporation bears to the total population of the Corporation; and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different wards in the Corporation;
2. (b) one third of the seats for the members belonging to the Backward Classes; and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different Wards in the Corporation; 35[XXX]
3. (c) not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved under clauses (a) and (b) for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or as the case may be, the Backward Classes;
4. (d) not less than one third (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election to the Corporation shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different Wards in a Corporation.] 36[(2-A) [XXX]] 37[(3) [XXX]] 38[Explanation:- In this section,-
   • (i) the expression ̳Scheduled Castes‘ and ̳Scheduled Tribes‘ shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in clause (24) and clause (25) of article 366 of the Constitution of India;
   • (ii) the expression ̳Backward Classes‘ means any socially, and educationalIy Backward Classes of citizens recognised by the Government for purposes of clause (4) of article 15 of the Constitution of India, 39[without reference to the classification but including the creamy layer amongst such Backward Classes of citizens]. 40[(iii) [XXX]]