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भारत का राजपत्र TheGazette ofIndia
असाधारण
EXTRAORDINARY
भाग II- खण्ड 2
PART II - Section 2
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सं॰ 6]
नई दिल्ली, बुधवार, मार्च1 , 2006 / फाल्गुन 10, 1927
No. 6] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2006 / PHALGUNA 10, 1927
इस भाग में भिन्न पृष्ठ संख्या दी जाती है जिससे कि यह अलग संकलन के रूप में रखा जा सके ।
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation .
LOK SABHA
The following Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 1st March, 2006:-
BILL NO . 15 OF 2006
A Bill further to amend the Constitution of India.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty- seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
2006. 1. ThisAct may be called the Constitution ( One Hundred and Fifth Amendment) Act, Short title .
2.In article 164 ofthe Constitution , in clause ( 1 ) , in the proviso , for the word "Bihar " , Amendment of thewords "Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand " shall be substituted. article 164 .
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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II-SEC.22]
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
Proviso to clause ( 1 ) of article 164 of the Constitution provides that there shall be aMinister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa .
2. The new States of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand came into being with the enactment of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act , 2000 and the Bihar Reorganisation Act , 2000 , with effect from 1st November , 2000 and 15th November , 2000, respectively. Consequent upon the creation of the States of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand , a sizable portion of the Scheduled Areas of the erstwhile State of Madhya Pradesh stands transferred to Chhattisgarh and the entire Scheduled Areas of the former Bihar State stand transferred to the newly formed Jharkhand State and the Scheduled Areas were redefined as per the Scheduled Areas (States of Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh ) Order , 2003 (C.O. 192) . Further , as per census figures of2001 , the percentage of the Scheduled Tribes population to total population in the four States are as follows :-
Name of the State
Percentage of the Scheduled Tribes population to total
0.9
(1) Bihar
26.3
(ii) Jharkhand
31.8
(iii) Chhattisgarh
20.3
(iv) Madhya Pradesh
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3. As there are no Scheduled Areas in Bihar now and the fraction ofpopulation ofthe Scheduled Tribes is very small , it is proposed to exclude Bihar from the purview of the said proviso and also proposed to extend the provisions of clause ( 1 ) of article 164 to the newly formed States of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand .
4. ThisBill seeks to achieve the above objects .
SHIVRAJ V. PATIL .
NEW DELHI;
The20thJanuary, 2006 .
P.D.T. ACHARY,
Secretary-General.
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