Reservation for women: one third of State Assembly seats reserved, including allocation for SC/ST women communities.

A new constitutional provision mandates reserved seats for women in every State Legislative Assembly, requiring that, as nearly as may be, one third of the seats to be filled by direct election in each Assembly be reserved for women, and that, as nearly as may be, one third of the seats reserved under the SC/ST reservation framework be allocated to women from those communities.

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