Question
Download Solution PDFThe Constitution provides for reservation of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies for the:
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Scheduled tribes.
Key Points
- Constitutional provisions for the development of Scheduled Tribes
- Article 243D provides reservation of Seats for Scheduled Tribes in Panchayats.
- Article 330 provides reservation of seats for Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People.
- Article 332 provides reservation of seats for Scheduled Tribes in Legislative Assemblies of the States.
- Article 334 provides that reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and the State Vidhan Sabhas (and the representation of the Anglo-Indian Community in the Lok Sabha and the State Vidhan Sabhas by nomination) would continue up to January 2020.
- 104th Amendment Act, 2020 - Extended the deadline for the cessation of seats for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and states assemblies from Seventy years to Eighty.
- Other specific safeguards have been provided in Article 244 read with the provisions contained in the Fifth and Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.
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