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(1) Seats shall be reserved in a Panchayat Samiti for the Schedued Castes and the Scheduled Tribes , and the number of seats to be reserved 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 or the Scheduled Tribes in that Panchayat Samiti area bears to the total population of that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Panchayat Samiti in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) [Fifty percent]2 of the total number of seats reserved under sub- section (1) shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes. (3) [Fifty Percent]3 ( including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribe) of the total number of seats to be filled by the direct election in every Panchayat Samiti shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different territorial constituencies in a Panchayat Samiti, in such manner as may be prescribed. [Provided that such reservation, as prescribed in Sub-section (2) and (3) of Section 14, may be less than Fifty percent if the particular Panchayat Samiti is constituted with members in odd number.]4