Constitutional Provisions for Scheduled and Tribal Areas
Various features of the scheduled 6
administered states
1. The tribal areas of the four states of Assam Meghalaya, Mizoram
and Tripura have been constituted in to autonomous districts but
do not fall outside the jurisdiction of the state authority concerned.
2. The government can organise and reorganise these districts. It can
reduce boundaries, increase or decrease areas and so on.
3. If there are different tribes living in the same district the governor
has the power to divide the district in to autonomous zones.
4. Each of these autonomous district has a district council consisting
of 30 members, four of which are nominated by the governor and
the remaining elected based on adult franchise. There is also a
separate regional council for each district.
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