Section 2
[18-A. (1) In every Zila Panchayat, seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the backward classes and the number of seats so reserved shall, as nearly as may be, bear the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Zila Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Panchayat area or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Panchayat area or of the backward classes in the Panchayat area bears to the total population of that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different territorial constituencies in a Zila Panchayat in such order as may be prescribed :
2 [18-A. (1) In every Zila Panchayat, seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the backward classes and the number of seats so reserved shall, as nearly as may be, bear the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Zila Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Panchayat area or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Panchayat area or of the backward classes in the Panchayat area bears to the total population of that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different territorial constituencies in a Zila Panchayat in such order as may be prescribed :
Provided that the reservation for the backward classes shall not exceed twenty-seven percent of the total number of seats in the Zila Panchayat.