Article 243S of Constitution of India "Constitution and composition of wards Committees, etc"
(1) There shall be constituted Wards Committees, consisting of one or more Wards, within the territorial area of a Municipality having a population of three lakhs or more.
(2) The Legislature of a State may, by law, make provision with respect to-
(a) the composition and the territorial area of a Wards Committee;
(b) the manner in which the seats in a Wards Committee shall be filled.
(3) A member of a Municipality representing a ward within the territorial area of the Wards Committee shall be a member of that Committee.
(4) Where a Wards Committee consists of-
(a) one ward, the member representing that ward in the Municipality; or
(b) two or more wards, one of the members representing such
wards in the Municipality elected by the members of the
Wards Committee, shall be the Chairperson of that Committee.
(5) Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to prevent the
Legislature of a State from making any provision for the
Constitution of Committees in addition to the Wards
Committees.
Article 243T of Constitution of India "Reservation of seats"
(1) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes in every Municipality and the number of
seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same
proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by
direct election in that Municipality as the population of
the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal area or of the
Scheduled Tribes in the Municipal area bears to the total
population of that area and such seats may be allotted by
rotation to different constituencies in a Municipality.
(2) Not less than one-third of the total number of seats
reserved under clause (1) shall be reserved for women
belonging to the Scheduled Castes or, as the case may be,
the Scheduled Tribes.
(3) Not less than one-third (including the number of seats
reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes) of the total number of seats to be filled
by direct election in every Municipality shall be reserved
for women and such seats may be allotted by rotation to
different constituencies in a Municipality.
(4) The offices of Chairpersons in the Municipalities shall
be reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes
and women in such manner as the Legislature of a State may,
by law, provide.
(5) The reservation of seats under clauses (1) and (2) and
the reservation of offices of Chairpersons (other than the
reservation for women) under clause (4) shall cease to have
effect on the expiration of the period specified in Article
334 .
(6) Nothing in this Part shall prevent the Legislature of a
State from making any provision for reservation of seats in
any Municipality or offices of Chairpersons in the
Municipalities in favour of backward class of citizens.
Article 243U of Constitution of India "Duration of Municipalities, etc"
(1) Every Municipality, unless sooner dissolved under any
law for the time being in force, shall continue for five
years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no
longer:
Provided that a Municipality shall be given a reasonable
opportunity of being heard before its dissolution.
(2) No amendment of any law for the time being in force
shall have the effect of causing dissolution of a
Municipality at any level, which is functioning immediately
before such amendment, till the expiration of its duration
specified in clause (1).
(3) An election to Constitute a Municipality shall be
completed,
(a) before the expiry of its duration specified in clause
(1);
(b) before the expiration of a period of six months from the
date of its dissolution:
Provided that where the remainder of the period for which
the dissolved Municipality would have continued is less than
six months, it shall not be necessary to hold any election
under this clause for constituting the Municipality for such
period.
(4) A Municipality constituted upon the dissolution of a
Municipality before the expiration of its duration shall
continue only for the remainder of the period for which the
dissolved Municipality would leave continued. under, clause
(1) had it not been so dissolved.