Reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes expanded to specified tribal areas and made proportionate to tribal population in autonomous districts. Amendment substitutes an expanded list of tribal area exceptions in Article 330 to include Assam tribal areas, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and ... Summary
Reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes expanded to specified tribal areas and made proportionate to tribal population in autonomous districts.
Amendment substitutes an expanded list of tribal area exceptions in Article 330 to include Assam tribal areas, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram for reservation of seats for Scheduled Tribes, and inserts a clause requiring that reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes in the autonomous districts of Assam be at least proportionate to the Scheduled Tribe population of those districts relative to the State; existing representation is preserved until the dissolution of the then current House of the People.
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