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Constitution of the Corporation.-(1) The Corporation shall consist of,- (a) such number of elected Councilors representing each ward determined by the Government under sub-section (3) of section 7. (b) the Government shall nominate such members from the residents of the city and such members shall not exceed ten percent of the Councillors:- (i) who are persons having special knowledge and experience in municipal administration or matters relating to health, town planning or education; or (ii) who are social workers; Provided that, the persons referred to in clause (b) shall not have right to vote in the meetings of the Corporation. (c) The Members of the House of people whose constituencies are within the area of the Corporation and the Members of the Council of States who are registered as voters in the Corporation. (d) The Members of Legislative Assembly whose constituencies are within the area of the Corporation and the Members of Legislative Council who are registered as voters in the Corporation. (2) Seats shall be reserved in a corporation,- (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, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the corporation as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the city or of the Scheduled Tribes in the city bears to the total population of the city. (3) Such number of seats which shall as nearly as may be, one third of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in a corporation shall be reserved for persons belonging to the Backward Classes: Provided that, the number of seats so reserved for the Backward Classes under this sub-section shall be so determined, that the total number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes 1[and the Backward Classes under sub-sections (2) and (3) shall not exceed fifty percent of the total number of seats in the Corporation.]1 23 Provided further that, out of the seats reserved under this sub-section, eighty percent of the total number of such seats shall be reserved for the persons falling under category "A" and the remaining twenty percent of the seats shall be reserved for the persons falling under category "B": Provided also that, if no person falling under category "A" is available, the seats reserved for that category shall also be filled by the persons falling under category "B" and vice-versa: