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NEW DELHI , MONDAY , AUGUST , 26 , 1963 /BHADRA 4 , 1885
DELIMITATION COMMISSION
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi , the 24th August 1963
S.O. 2443.- In pursuance of sub -section ( 1 ) of section 10 of the Delimitation Commission Act, 1962 , an Order made by the Delimitation Commission in respect of the determination of numbers under clause ( b ) of section 8 of the said Act is hereby published :
Order No. 2
In pursuance of clause (b) of section 8 of the Delimitation Commission Act, 1962 , we hereby determine , on the basis of the latest census figures and having regard to the provisions of articles 170 and 332 of the Constitution , the number of seats to be assigned in the Legislative Assembly of each State and the number of seats , if any , to be reserved for the scheduled castes and for the scheduled tribes of the State .
Clause ( 1 ) of article 170 of the Constitution fixes the maximum limit of 500 and the minimum limit of 60 for the number of mem- bers to be chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in a State . Section 8 of the Delimitation Commission Act imposes another condition which is that the total number of seats assigned to the Legislative Assembly of a State shall be an integral multiple of the number of seats in the House of the People allocated to that State.
We have by our Order No. I determined the number of seats to be allotted in the House of the People to each of the States . If the existing integral multiples are retained, the total number of seats to be assigned to the several Legislative Assemblies , will be as shown in the following table in which the States are listed in descending order of population .
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TABLE
Name of State
1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Bihar
3. Maharashtra
4. Andhra Pradesh
5. West Bengal
6. Madras
7. Madhya Pradesh
8. Mysore
9. Gujarat
10. Punjab
11. Rajasthan
12. Orissa
13. Kerala
14. Assam
Multiple
No. of seats in the Legislative Assembly No. of seats in the House of the people
85
425
318 53
566 6
270 45
287 41
7
280 40
7
195 39
58 5 8
296 37
216
8
27
168
7
24
161 23
108 7
23
184
20
140
7
19
133
79
126
9
14
We notice that while , broadly speaking , the multiple increases as the population of the State decreases , this principle has not been uniformly followed . We have considered the desirability of changing the multiple in the case of some of the States but finally come to the conclusion that it is preferable to retain the existing multiple in all States except Madras . The Legislative Assembly of this State has at present 206 elective seats . Considering that its quota in the House of the People will for the future be reduced by two we think it proper to raise its multiple from 5 to 6 and to assign 234 seats to its Legislative Assembly. The total number of seats to be assigned to the Legislative Assembly of each of the other States will be as shown in the above table .
Next, as regards the number of seats to be reserved in each Legis- lative Assembly for the scheduled castes and for the scheduled tribes of the State, we have to bear in mind the provisions of article 332 of the Constitution which read as follows :-
" ( 1 ) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes , except the Scheduled Tribes in the tribal areas of Assam , in the Legislative Assembly of every State .
(2) Seats shall be reserved also for the autonomous districts in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam .
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any State under clause ( 1 ) shall bear , as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats in the Assembly as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State or part of the State , as the case may be , in respect of which seats are so reserved , bears to the total popula- tion of the State .
(4) The number of seats reserved for an autonomous dis- trict in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam shall bear to the total number of seats in that Assembly a proportion not less than the population of the dis- trict bears to the total population of the State.
(5) The constituencies for the seats reserved for any autono- mous district of Assam shall not comprise any area outside that district except in the case of the consti- tuency comprising the cantonment and municipality ofShillong .
(6) No person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe of any autonomous district of the State of Assam shall be eligible for election to the Legislative Asseınbly of the State from any constituency of that district except from the constituency comprising the cantonment and municipality of Shillong . "
The relevant population figures as ascertained at the last census are given in the table below :-
1961 Census Population
Name of State
Total
Proportion to total population
S.C.
S.T. S.T.
S.C.
1. Uttar Pradesh
2091
15.417,245
73,746,401
2. Bihar
46,455,610
1407
0905
6,536,875
3. Maharashtra 39,553,718 4,204,770
0606
2,397,159 0563
2,226,914
4. Andhra Pradesh 35,983,447
0368
1382
1,324,368
4.973,616
5. West Bengal 34,926,279
1990
0591 2,063,883
6,950,726
6. Madras
0075
1803
6,072,536
33,686,953
32,372,408 252,646
2063 6,678,410 1314
4,253,024
7. Madhya Pradesh .
8. Mysore
23,586,772
0081
192,096
1322
3,117,232
9. Gujarat
20,633,350
0663
1335 2,754,446
1,367,255
10. Punjab
20,306,812
2038 *0007 14,132
4,139,106
11. Rajasthan 20,155,602
-1667
1146
3,359,640
12. Orissa
17,548,846 2,309,447
2407
1575
2,763,858
13. Kerala
16,903,715 4,223,757
0126
0849
212,762
1,434,817
14. Assam
11,872,772
0617
1742
732,756
(1) Autonomous districts
(ii) Rest of
Assam
2,068,364
0934 1,108,681
-0808
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The calculations determining the number of seats to be reserved for ( a ) the scheduled castes of each State (b ) the scheduled tribes of each State except those in the tribal areas of Assam and ( c) for the autonomous districts in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Assam , are set out in the table below : -
Total No.
Name of State
TABLE
No. of seats to be reserved for
Scheduled Tribes
Scheduled Castes
of seats to be assigned
I
2
1. Uttar Pradesh 425 3
4
425 × 2091-88-87-89
2. Bihar
318
1407-44.74-45
318
3. Maharashtra
318 × 0905-28-78-29
270X 0563-15-20-15
270
4. Andhra Pradesh
270X0606 = 16.36 = 16
287 1382-39.66-40
287 280 5. West Bengal
2870368-10.56 = 11
280 × 0591 = 16.55-17
280 × 1990-55-72-56
6. Madras
234 × 1803-42-19-42
234
296
234 × 0075 = 1.75 = 2
296 × 1314-38-89-39
7. Madhya Pradesh
216 8. Mysore
296 × 2063-61.06-61
216 × 0081 1.75 2
216 × 1322-28-56-29
168 9. Gujarat
168 × 1335-22.43-22
168X 0663-11-14-11
161 10. Punjab
161 × 0007 0II 。
161 × 2038-32-81-33
184 × 1667-30-67-31
11. Rajasthan
12. Orissa
184 × 1146-21-09-21
140 × 1575-22-05-22
184 140
13. Kerala
133
140 × 2407-33.70-34
133 0126 1.68 2
133X0849-11-29-11
126
126 0808-10 · 18 = 10
126 X 0617 777 8
14. Assam
It will be noticed that in every case the rounding off has been done to the nearest integer .
Out of 126 seats assigned to the Legislative Assembly of Assam , 16 seats shall be reserved for the autonomous districts of that State as shown below :-
Name ofdistrict
1. United Khasi and Jaintia Hills
2. Garo Hills
3. Mizo
4. North Cachar Hills
5. Mikir Hills
No. of seats
Population
Proportion to total population of Assam
4.65-5
0369
437,605
0259 3.26-4 307,228
2.82-3 266,063 0224
0.58 = 1
-0046
54,319
2.39 3
0190
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Accordingly , in pursuance of clause (b) of section 8 of the Delimitation Commission Act , 1962 , we determine the number of seats to be assigned to the Legislative Assembly of each State and the number of seats , if any , to be reserved for the scheduled castes and for the scheduled tribes of the State as set out in the Table below : -
Name ta .
1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Assam
3. Bihar
4. Gujarat' ,
5.Kerala
6- Madhya Pradesh
7. Madras
8. Maharashtra
9. Mysore
10. Orissa
11. Punjab
12. Rajasthan!
13. Uttar Pradesh
14. West Bengal
TABLE
To.al No. of seats Scheduled Castes
Scheduled Tribes
II 287
40
8
126
318
29
45
II
168
22
II
2 133
61 296
39
2 234
42
16 270
15
2 216
29
22
140
34
161
Nil
33
21 184
31
Nil 425
89
280
56
17
Out of 126 seats assigned to the Legislative Assembly of Assam, there shall be reserved-
5 Seats for the United Khasi and Jaintia Hills district.
4 Seats for the Garo Hills district.
3 Seats for the Mizo district .
I Seat for the North Cachar Hills and
3 Seats for the Mikir Hills .
New Delhi ,
The 24th August, 1963 .
J. L. Kapur , Chairman
C. P. Sinha
K. V. K. Sundaram
Members
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By order,
P. S. SUBRAMANIAN , Secу.
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