Section 1
[19-A. (1) The offices of the Adhyakshas of the Zila Panchayats in the State shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the backward classes :
1 [19-A. (1) The offices of the Adhyakshas of the Zila Panchayats in the State shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the backward classes :
Provided that the number of offices of Adhyakshas so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be the same proportion to the total number of such offices in the State as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the State or of the Scheduled Tribes in the State or of the backward classes in the State bears to the total population of the State and the offices so reserved shall be allotted by rotation to different Zila Panchayats in the State in such order as may be prescribed :
Provided further that the reservation of the backward classes shall not exceed twenty-seven percent of the total number of offices of Adhyakshas in the State.