## CONSTITUTION 243T

### CONSTITUTION 243T — Reservation of seats
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/constitution/243T

> 243T. Reservation of seats.-(1) Seats shall be reserved for the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every Municipality and 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 in that Municipality as
the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal area or of the Scheduled
Tribes in the Municipal area bears to the total population of that area and such
seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Municipality.
(2) Not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved under
clause (1) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as
the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes.
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(3) Not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved for
women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) of the total
number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Municipality shall be
reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different
constituencies in a Municipality.
(4) The offices of Chairpersons in the Municipalities shall be reserved for
the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and women in such manner as the
Legislature of a State may, by law, provide.
(5) The reservation of seats under clauses (1) and (2) and the reservation of
offices of Chairpersons (other than the reservation for women) under clause (4)
shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period specified in article 334.
(6) Nothing in this Part shall prevent the Legislature of a State from
making any provision for reservation of seats in any Municipality or offices of
Chairpersons in the Municipalities in favour of backward class of citizens.