How does the Legislature determine which seats are reserved for these groups?
The Legislature determines which seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in a Municipality by ensuring that the number of seats so reserved bears, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in that Municipality as the population of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in the Municipal area bears to the total population of that area. This is done through a process of allotting these reserved seats by rotation to different constituencies within the Municipality. Additionally, not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved under this clause shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be, the Scheduled Tribes.