Article 244 of Constitution of India "Administration of Scheduled Areas and Tribal Areas"
(1) The provisions of the Fifth Schedule shall apply to the administration and control of the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State other than the States of Assam Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.
Article 244A of Constitution of India "Formation of
an autonomous State comprising certain tribal areas in Assam
and creation of local Legislature or Council of Ministers or
both therefor"
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution,
Parliament may, by law, form within the State of Assam an
autonomous State comprising (whether wholly or in part) all
or any of the tribal areas specified in Part I of the table
appended to paragraph 20 of the Sixth Schedule and create
therefor-
(a) a body, whether elected or partly nominated and partly
elected, to function as a Legislature for the autonomous
State, or
(b) a Council of Ministers, or both with such constitution,
powers and functions, in each case, as may be specified in
the law.
(2) Any such law as is referred to in clause (1) may, in
particular,-
(a) specify the matters enumerated in the State List or the
Concurrent List with respect to which the legislature of the
autonomous State shall have power to make laws for the whole
or any part thereof, whether to the exclusion of the
Legislature of the State of Assam or otherwise;
(b) define the matters with respect to which the executive
power of the autonomous State shall extend;
(c) provide that any tax levied by the State of Assam shall
be assigned to the autonomous State in so far as the
proceeds thereof are attributable to the autonomous State;
(d) provide that any reference to a State in any Article of
this Constitution shall be construed as including a
reference to the autonomous State; and
(e) make such supplemental, incidental and consequential
provisions as may be deemed necessary.
(3) An amendment of any such law as aforesaid in so far as
such amendsment relates to any of the matters specified in
sub-clause (a) or sub-clause (b) of clause (2) shall have no
effect unless the amendment is passed in each House of
Parliament by not less than two-thirds of the members
present and voting.
(4) Any such law as is referred to in this Article shall not
be deemed to be an amendment of this Constitution for the
purposes of Article 368 notwithstanding that it contains any
provision which amends or has the effect of amending this
Constitution.