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Constitution Of India Article 330 - Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People

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(1) Seats shall be reserved in the House of the People for:

(a) the Scheduled Castes;

[1](b) the Scheduled Tribes except the Scheduled Tribes in the autonomous districts of Assam; and

(c) the Scheduled Tribes in the autonomous districts of Assam.

[2](2) The number of seats reserved in any State or Union territory for the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes under clause (1) shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats allotted to that State or Union territory in the House of the People as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or Union territory or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State or Union territory or part of the State or Union territory, as the case may be, in respect of which seats are so reserved, bears to the total population of the State or Union territory.

[3](3) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause(2), the number of seats reserved in the House of the People for the Scheduled Tribes in the autonomous districts of Assam shall bear to the total number of seats allotted to that State a proportion not less than the population of the Scheduled Tribes in the said autonomous districts bears to the total population of the State.

Explanation: In this article and in article 332, the expression population means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published:

[4]Provided that the reference in this Explanation to the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published shall, until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 2026[5] have been published, be construed as a reference to the 2001[6] census.

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1. Subs. by the Constitution (Fifty-first Amendment) Act, 1984, s.2, for sub-clause (b) (w.e.f. 16-6-1986).

2. Ins. by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s.29 and Sch.

3. Ins. by the Constitution (Thirty-first Amendment) Act, 1973, s.3.

4. Ins. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s.47 (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).

5. Subs. by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001, s.6.

6. Subs. by the Constitution (Eighty-seventh Amendment) Act, 2003, s.5.


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