Representation of the People Act, 1950 · Chapter II: Allocation of Seats and Delimitation of Constituencies · The House of the People
Section 3: Allocation of seats in the House of the People
[3. Allocation of seats in the House of the People.The allocation of seats to the States in the House of the People and the number of seats, if any, to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and for the Scheduled Tribes of each State shall be as shown in the First Schedule.]
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Supreme Court judgments citing the section 3
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Areas v. UOI [Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Cji]
Matter pertains to the scope of the Court’s power to issue directions for the grant of proportional representation for the Limboo-Tamang Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People and in the Legislative Assemblies of…