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                                 SIXTH SCHEDULE
                              [Articles 244(2) and 275(1)]
  Provisions as to the Administration of Tribal Areas in 1[the States of
                   Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram]
       21.
           Autonomous districts and autonomous regions.—(1) Subject to
the provisions of this paragraph, the tribal areas in each item of 3[4[Parts I, II
and IIA] and in Part III] of the table appended to paragraph 20 of this
Schedule shall be an autonomous district.
       (2) If there are different Scheduled Tribes in an autonomous district,
the Governor may, by public notification, divide the area or areas inhabited
by them into autonomous regions.
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       (3) The Governor may, by public notification,—
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               (a) include any area in 3[any of the Parts] of the said table;
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               (b) exclude any area from 3[any of the Parts] of the said table;
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               (c) create a new autonomous district;
               (d) increase the area of any autonomous district;
               (e) diminish the area of any autonomous district;
               (f) unite two or more autonomous districts or parts thereof so
       as to form one autonomous district;
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                 [(ff) alter the name of any autonomous district];
               (g) define the boundaries of any autonomous district:

1. Subs. by the State of Mizoram Act, 1986 (34 of 1986), s. 39, for certain words
   (w.e.f. 20-2-1987).
2. Paragraph 1 has been amended in its application to the State of Assam by the Sixth
   Schedule to the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2003 (44 of 2003), s. 2, so as to
   insert the following proviso after sub-paragraph (2), namely :—
      "Provided that nothing in this sub-paragraph shall apply to the Bodoland
    Territorial Areas District" (w.e.f. 7-9-2003).
3. Subs. by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 (81 of 1971), s. 71(i)
   and Eighth Sch., for "Part A" (w.e.f. 21-1-1972).
4. Subs. by the Constitution (Forty-ninth Amendment) Act, 1984, s. 4, for "Part I and
   II" (w.e.f. 1-4-1985).
5. Ins. by the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 (55 of 1969), s. 74 and
   Fourth Sch. (w.e.f. 2-4-1970).
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