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Reservation of seats of Panchayat Samitis.-- Seats shall be reserved for — (a) the Scheduled Castes; and (b) the Backward Classes; in every Panchayat Samiti and the number of seats so reserved for Scheduled Castes shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in that Panchayat Samiti as the population of the Scheduled Castes in that Panchayat Samiti area bears to the total population of that Panchayat Samiti area and such seats may be allotted by the rotation to different constituencies in a Panchayat Samiti. ; (2) Not less that one-third of the total number of seats reserved under sub-section (1) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes. (3) Not less than one-third (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Panchayat Samiti shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by the rotation to different constituencies in the Panchayat Samiti area. (4) One seat shall be reserved for Backward Classes in a Panchayat Samiti in which the population of Backward Classes is not less than twenty per cent of the total population of the Panchayat Samiti area.