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129                   THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                          (Part IXA.—The Municipalities)

      243S. Constitution and composition of Wards Committees, etc.—(1)
There shall be constituted Wards Committees, consisting of one or more wards,
within the territorial area of a Municipality having a population of three lakhs
or more.
      (2) The Legislature of a State may, by law, make provision with respect
to—
           (a) the composition and the territorial area of a Wards Committee;
          (b) the manner in which the seats in a Wards Committee shall be
      filled.
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       (3) A member of a Municipality representing a ward within the territorial
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area of the Wards Committee shall be a member of that Committee.
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      (4) Where a Wards Committee consists of—
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           (a) one ward, the member representing that ward in the Municipality;
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      or
          (b) two or more wards, one of the members representing such wards
      in the Municipality elected by the members of the Wards Committee,
shall be the Chairperson of that Committee.
       (5) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to prevent the Legislature of a
State from making any provision for the constitution of Committees in addition
to the Wards Committees.
       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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