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83. The Constitution (Eighty-third Amendment) Act, 2000—The Act amended Acticle 243M of the Constitution to provide that no reservation in Panchayats need be made in favour of the Scheduled Castes in Arunachal Pradesh wholly inhabited by tribal population.
84. The Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001—The Act amended provisos to articles
82 and 170(3) of the Constitution to readjust and rationalise the territorial constitutencies in the
States, without altering the number of seats allotted to each State in House of People and Legislative
Assemblies of the States, including the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes constituencies, on the
basis of the population ascertained at the census for the year 1991 so as to remove the imbalance
caused due to uneven growth of population/electorate in different constituencies. It is also to refix the
number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the House of the
People and the Legislative Assemblies of the States on the basis of the population ascertained at the
census for the year 1991 so as to remove the imbalance caused due to uneven growth of
population/electorate in different constituencies. It is also to refix the number of seats reserved for
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People and the Legislative
Assemblies of the States on the basis of the population ascertained at the census for the year 1991.
