## CONSTITUTION 332

### CONSTITUTION 332 — Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assemblies of the States
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> 332. Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
in the Legislative Assemblies of the States.-(1) Seats shall be reserved for the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, 2[except the Scheduled Tribes in the
autonomous districts of Assam], in the Legislative Assembly of every State 3***.
(2) Seats shall be reserved also for the autonomous districts in the
Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam.
(3) The number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes or the
Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of any State under clause (1) shall
bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats in the
Assembly as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or of the
Scheduled Tribes in the State or part of the State, as the case may be, in respect
of which seats are so reserved, bears to the total population of the State.
4[(3A) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (3), until the taking
effect, under article 170, of the re-adjustment, on the basis of the first census after
the year 5[2026], of the number of seats in the Legislative Assemblies of the
States of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland, the seats
which shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of
any such State shall be,-

1. Ins. by the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023, s.3 (w.e.f. 16-4-2026).
2. Subs. by the Constitution (Fifty-first Amendment) Act, 1984, s. 3, for certain words (w.e.f. 16-6-1986).
3. The words and letters "specified in Part A or Part B of the First Schedule" omitted by the
Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 29 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).
4. Ins. by the Constitution (Fifty-seventh Amendment) Act, 1987, s. 2 (w.e.f. 21-9-1987).
5. Subs. by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001, s. 7, for "2000" (w.e.f. 21-2-2002).
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(a) if all the seats in the Legislative Assembly of such State in
existence on the date of coming into force of the Constitution (Fiftyseventh Amendment) Act, 1987 (hereafter in this clause referred to as the
existing Assembly) are held by members of the Scheduled Tribes, all the
seats except one;
(b) in any other case, such number of seats as bears to the total
number of seats, a proportion not less than the number (as on the said date)
of members belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the existing Assembly
bears to the total number of seats in the existing Assembly.]
1[(3B) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (3), until the readjustment, under article 170, takes effect on the basis of the first census after
the year 2[2026], of the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of the State
of Tripura, the seats which shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes in the
Legislative Assembly shall be, such number of seats as bears to the total number
of seats, a proportion not less than the number, as on the date of coming into
force of the Constitution (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992, of members
belonging to the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly in existence on
the said date bears to the total number of seats in that Assembly.]
(4) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous district in the
Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam shall bear to the total number of seats
in that Assembly a proportion not less than the population of the district bears to
the total population of the State.
(5) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autonomous district
of Assam shall not comprise any area outside that district 3***.
(6) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any
autonomous district of the State of Assam shall be eligible for election to the
Legislative Assembly of the State from any constituency of that district 3***:
4[Provided that for elections to the Legislative Assembly of the State of

1. Ins. by the Constitition (Seventy-second Amendment) Act, 1992, s. 2 (w.e.f. 5-12-1992).
2. Subs. by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001, s. 7, for "2000"
(w.e.f. 21-2-2002).
3. Certain words omitted by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 (81 of 1971),
s. 71 (w.e.f. 21-1-1972).
4. Ins. by the Constitution (Ninetieth Amendment) Act, 2003, s. 2 (w.e.f. 28-9-2003).
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Assam, the representation of the Scheduled Tribes and non-Scheduled Tribes in
the constituencies included in the Bodoland Territorial Areas District, so notified,
and existing prior to the constitution of Bodoland Territorial Areas District, shall
be maintained.]