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190                         THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                  (Part XVI.—Special Provisions Relating to Certain Classes)

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         [330A. Reservation of seats for women in the House of the People.-
       (1) Seats shall be reserved for women in the House of the People.
       (2) As nearly as may be, one-third of the total number of seats reserved
under clause (2) of article 330 shall be reserved for women belonging to the
Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes.
       (3) As nearly as may be, 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 to the House
of the People shall be reserved for women.]
       331. Representation of the Anglo-Indian Community in the House of
the People.—Notwithstanding anything in article 81, the President may, if he is
of opinion that the Anglo-Indian community is not adequately represented in
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the House of the People, nominate not more than two members of that
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community to the House of the People.
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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
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the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, 2[except the Scheduled Tribes
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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.
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         [(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,                    (dates.3yet to be
   (w.e.f.  16-4-2026).
    notified).
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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