(1) Reservation of seats or offices under Rules 3,4, 5 and 6, shall be made as far as practicable in the Ward or Territorial Ward or Panchayat where the population of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, or Backward Classes or Women, as the case may be is comparatively large to the total population of the Ward or Territorial Ward or the Panchayat.
Provided that such seats reserved for women in Wards of Village Panchayats or Panchayat Unions or Territorial Wards of District Panchayats and such seats reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, or Backward Classes for women in the office Presidents of Village Panchayats, Chairpersons of Panchayat Union Councils and Chairpersons of District Panchayats, shall be allotted by rotation [at the expiry of every ten years] and reallotted to other Wards or Territorial Wards or Panchayats where the percentage of population of women or Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes or Backward Classes as the case may be, is next larger to the total population of that Ward, Territorial Ward or Panchayat, by adopting a list of Wards or Panchayats arranged in the descending order of the percentage of Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women.
J.T. ACHARYULU SPECIAL COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
7. PANCHAYAT ELECTIONS