Composition of legislative assembly in states of india
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. Composition of Legislative Assembly:
The Legislative Assembly of each State consists of members not more than 500 and not less than 60 according to its population. They are elected directly on the basis of adult suffrage from territorial constituencies. Most of the constituencies are single membered, but a few are plural-membered also, e.g., in the Uttar Pradesh out of 347 constituencies, 264 were single-membered and 83 two-membered. There is to be proportionately equal representation accorded to population in respect of each territorial constituency within a State.
After each census, the number of seats in a Legislative Assembly of each State and division of each State into territorial constituencies is readjusted according to a prescribed manner. Article 332 of the Constitution provides for the reservation of seats in the Assembly of every State for the Scheduled Castes and Tribes on population basis. In the Legislative Assembly of Assam, similar reservation for the autonomous tribal districts is provided. Article 333 empowers the Governor to nominate to its Assembly such number of the representatives of the Anglo-Indian community as he deems fit, in case in his opinion that community is not adequately represented.
The number of Anglo Indians so nominated by the Governor of the several states in 2001-02 was as follows: Andhra… 1; Bihar… 1; Karnataka… 1; Kerala… 1; Madhya Pradesh… 1; Tamil Nadu…1; Maharashtra… 1; West Bengal…4. Originally all such reservations of seats for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the representatives of the Anglo-Indian community by nomination were to cease after ten years from the commencement of the Constitution.