Section 42(2A) in Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964
(2A)[ There shall be reserved by the Government in the prescribed manner,-(a)such number of offices of President and Vice-President in the State for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and the number of such offices bearing as nearly as may be the same proportion to the total number of offices in the State as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State bears to the total population of the State;(b)such number of offices of President and Vice-president in the State which shall as nearly as may be one-third of the total number of offices of President and Vice-president in the State for the persons belonging to the Backward Classes;[Provided that out of the offices reserved under this clause eighty per cent of the total number of such offices shall be reserved for the persons falling under category "A" and the remaining twenty per cent of the offices shall be reserved for the persons falling under category "B":Provided further that if no person falling under category "A" is available, offices reserved for that category shall also be filled by the persons falling under category "B" and vice versa.] [Sub-section (2A) Inserted by Act 36 of 1994 w.e.f. 1-6-1994.][Provided also that the number of offices of President and VicePresident reserved for the backward classes under this clause shall be so determined that the total number of offices of President and Vice-President reserved for the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes and the backward classes under this clause shall not exceed fifty percent of the total number of offices of President and Vice-President of the Municipal Councils in the State.] [Inserted by Act 32 of 2012 w.e.f. 30-8-2012.](c)[not more than fifty percent of the total number of offices of the President and Vice-President] [Substituted by Act 32 of 2012 w.e.f. 30-8-2012.] in the State from each of the categories, reserved for persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes and those which are non-reserved, for women:Provided that the offices reserved under this sub-section shall be allotted by rotation in the prescribed manner to different municipal councils.Explanation. - For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that the principal of rotation for the purpose of reservation of offices under this subsection shall commence from the first ordinary election to be held after the first day of June 1994;]
