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Fourth Proviso inserted vide H.P. Act No. 17 of 2005, effective from 30th May, 2005 and deleted. vide H.P. Act No. 10 of 2008, effective from 13th June, 2008. 26 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PANCHAYATI RAJ ACT, 1994 (2) Seats shall be reserved in a Gram Panchayat-- (a) for the Scheduled Castes, and (b) for the Scheduled Tribes, and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, same proportion to the total number of seats in the Gram Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in the Sabha area bears to the total population of the Sabha area: 1[Provided that where there is no eligible candidate belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes to be elected as member of the Gram Panchayat, no seat shall be reserved for Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.] 2[(3) 3[One-half] of the total number of seats reserved under sub- section (2) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes. (3-A) 4[One- half] (including the number of seats reserved for women women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Gram Panchayat shall be reserved for women.] (4) The State Government may, by general or special order, reserve such number of seats for persons belonging to Backward Classes in a Gram Panchayat, not exceeding the proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Gram Panchayat as the population of the persons belonging to Backward Classes in that Gram Sabha area bears to the total population of that area and may further reserve 5[one-half] of the total seats reserved under this sub-section for women belonging to Backward Classes. (5) The seats reserved under sub-sections (2), 6[(3), (3-A)] and (4) shall be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in the Sabha area in such manner as may be prescribed. (6) If for any reason the election to any Gram Panchayat does not result in the election of required number of persons as specified in sub-section (1), the Deputy Commissioner, shall within one month from the date on which the names of the elected persons are published by him under section 126 arrange another election to make up the deficiency.