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Section 4: Reservation of seats.

The Maharashtra District Planning Committees (Constitution and Functions) Act, 1998.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 24 of 1998

(1) In the seats to be filled in by election in the District Planning Committee, there shall be seats reserved for persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Class of Citizens and women, as provided in sub-sections (2) and (3), in the prescribed manner.

[(2) The number of seats to be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes in each constituency shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of Scheduled Caste members in that constituency as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the district bears to the total population of the District:

Provided that, [one-half] of the total number of seats so reserved shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes:

Provided further that, where the number of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes in only one, then no seat shall be reserved for woman belonging to the Scheduled Caste *****.]

[(2A) One seat shall be reserved for the Scheduled Tribes in a District Planning Committee where the constituency of such district is having the largest number of elective seats in the general category, and where such district does not have a separate District Planning Committee exclusively for the Tribal Sub-Plan:

Provided that, no seat shall be so reserved if there is no member belonging to a Scheduled Tribe amongst the members of the Constituencies of the District Planning Committees.]

(3) The number of seats to be reserved for the persons belonging to Backward Class of Citizens shall be thirty per cent. of the total number of seats to be filled-in by election in the District Planning Committee:

Provided that, [one-half] of the total number of seats so reserved shall be reserved for women belonging to the category of Backward Class of Citizens.

(4) [One-half] (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Class of citizens) of the total numbers of seats to be filled-in by election from the urban area or rural area in a District Planning Committee shall be reserved for women.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra District Planning Committees (Constitution and Functions) Act, 1998.
Section4
Marginal noteReservation of seats.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Mah. 30 of 2000. Sub-section (2) was substituted by Mah. 30 of 2000, s. 4 (a).
  • substituted, Mah. 33 of 2012. These words were substituted for the words one-third by Mah. 33 of 2012, s. 2 (1) (a).
  • substituted, Mah. 33 of 2012. These words "and where only two seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes, one of the two seats shall be reserved for woman belonging to the Scheduled Caste" were substituted, Mah. 33 of 2012, s. 2 (1) (b).
  • inserted, Mah. 30 of 2000. Sub-section (2A) was inserted by Mah. 30 of 2000, s. 4 (b).
  • substituted, Mah. 33 of 2012. These words were substituted for the words "one-third" by Mah. 33 of 2012, s. 2 (1) (c).
  • substituted, Mah. 33 of 2012. These words were substituted for the words "one-third" Mah. 33 of 2012, s. 2 (1) (d).

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