GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

ABSTRACT

 Elections - Elections to the Municipal Corporations - Reservation of the offices of Mayors  to Schedule Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and Women Rules - Amendment - Issued.

MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION & URBAN DEVELOPMENT (ELE.II) DEPARTMENT

 

G.O. Ms.No. 757                                                                                  Dated: 16th August 2005

       Read the following:

 

G.O.Ms.No. 46, MA&UD Department, dated. 6.2.1995.

 

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ORDER:

 

            The appended Notification will be published in the extra ordinary issued of Andhra Pradesh Gazette Dated 17.8.2005

 

            The Commissioner Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase, Hyderabad, is requested to send 500 copies of the Notification to Government urgently.

 

( BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)

VEENA ISH,

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

To

The Commissioner Printing, Stationery and Stores Purchase, Hyderabad

The Commissioner and Director of Municipal Administration, Hyderabad

The  Commissioners of all Municipal Corporations.

The Secretary, State Election Commission, Hyderabad

 

// FORWARDED  BY ORDER //

 

SECTION OFFICER

NOTIFICATION

 

            In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 585 of the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955 (Act No.11 of 1956) read with section 14 of the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 (Act No.25/94), the Governor of Andhra Pradesh hereby makes the following amendment to the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations (Reservation of the offices of Mayor) Rules, issued in G.O.Ms.No. 46, MA&UD Department, dated 6.2.1995:-

 

 

AMENDMENT

 

For rules 7 and 8 in the said rules the following rules shall be substituted, namely:-

 

“7.Manner of reservation of offices of Mayors to the Members belonging to Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes and Women 

 

The reservation of offices of Mayor for members belonging to Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes and Women in the Municipal corporations of the State shall be made with reference to largest percentage of population of the said category to the total population of the Municipal Corporations in the descending order.

 

8. Manner of reservation of offices of Mayors to the Members belonging to Backward Classes:

 

After arriving at the offices of Mayors proposed to be reserved for Scheduled Tribes, Schedule Castes to different offices of Mayors in Municipal Corporations in the State the seats to be reserved for Backward Classes in the remaining offices of Mayors in the Municipal Corporations, shall be  on rotation basis with reference to the largest percentage of voters of the said category to the total number of voters of the Municipal Corporation concerned in the descending order.”

 

VEENA ISH,

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT