Constitution of India, 1949
232.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, [except the Scheduled Tribes in the tribal
areas of Assam, in Nagaland and in Meghalaya], in the Legislative Assembly of every
State.
(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 nearly as
may be, the same proportion to the 奏otal 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) 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.
(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.