Reservation

(1) Seats shall be reserved in the office of the Sabhadhipati for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the number of offices so reserved in the State shall bear, as nearly as may be the same proportion to the total number of such offices as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State bears to the total population of the State. Provided that in the event of non-availability of any elected member belonging to Scheduled Castes or as the case may be Scheduled Tribes, the reservation rotation for the office of Sabhadhipati will skip to next rotation. NOTE:- For the Purpose of this Sub-section ‘State’ shall mean the area of the State where the provisions of this Act extend. (2) Fifty Percent of the total number of offices of Sabhadhipati in the State from each category reserved for persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and those which are unreserved, shall be reserved for women: Provided that the number of offices reserved under this Section shall be allotted by rotation to different Zilla Parishads in such manner as may be prescribed within the State. Provided further that such reservation, as prescribed in Sub-section (2) of Section 131, may be less than Fifty percent if the total number of offices of the Sabhadhipati in the State is in odd number.