(1)In every Gaon Panchayat seats shall be reserved for:(a)Scheduled Caste, and(b)Scheduled Tribes,And the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be the same proportion of the total number of seats to be field up by direct election in that Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes in that Gaon Panchayat area or of the Scheduled Tribes in that area bears to the total population of that area and such seats shall be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Gaon Panchayat in such manner as may be prescribed.
