State Act

THE KARNATAKA GRAM SWARAJ AND PANCHAYAT RAJ ACT, 1993

123. Reservation of Seats.- (1) Seats 1[shall be reserved by the 2[3[Government]3]2]1 in a Taluk Panchayat,- (a) for the Scheduled Castes; and (b) for the Scheduled Tribes; and the number of seats so reserved shall bear as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Taluk Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Taluk or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Taluk bears to the total population of the Taluk: 1[Provided that at least one seat each shall be reserved in a Taluk Panchayat for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Casts and the Scheduled Tribes.]1 (2) Such number of seats which shall, as nearly as may be one -third of the total number of seats in a Taluk Panchayat 1[shall be reserved by the 2[4[Government]4]2]1 for persons belonging to the Backward Classes. 3[But the number of seats reserved for the Backward Classes under this sub-section shall be so determined, that the total number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes under sub-section (1) and the Backward Classes under this sub-section shall not exceed fifty per cent of the total number of seats in the Taluk Panchayat.]3 1[Provided that out of the seats reserved under this sub-section eighty per cent of the total number of such seats 2[shall be reserved by the 3[4[Government]4]3]2 for the persons falling under category ‘A’ and the remaining twenty per cent of the seats 2[shall be reserved by the 3[4[Government]4]3]2 for the persons falling under category ‘B’.]1 (3) Not less than 3[fifty percent]3 of the seats reserved for each category of persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes and those of the non-reserved seats in a Taluk Panchayat 1[shall be reserved by the 2[5[Government]5]2]1 for women 4[subject to an overall limit of one half rounding of to the next number]4: Provided that the seats reserved under sub-sections (1), (2), and (3) shall be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in the Taluk 1[and such rotation shall be continued for a period of 2[five years]2]1: Provided further that nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prevent the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes or Backward classes or women for whom seats have been reserved in a Taluk Panchayat from standing for election to the non-reserved seats in such Taluk Panchayat.