Section 1
[7-A. (1) The offices of the Pramukhs of Kshettra Panchayats in the State shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the backward classes :
1 [7-A. (1) The offices of the Pramukhs of Kshettra 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 office of the Pramukhs 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 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 may be allotted by rotation to different Kshettra Panchayats in the State in such order as may be prescribed ;
Provided further that the reservation for the backward classes shall not exceed twenty-seven per cent of total number of offices of Pramukhs in the State.