Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha is made on the basis of their proportion in the population of the concerned State or Union Territory. This question appears to be based on the specific example of undivided Andhra Pradesh, which had 42 Lok Sabha seats and 7 seats reserved for SC as per past delineations.
If the number of seats allocated to a state in the Lok Sabha is 42, then the number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes in that state will be
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 1996 · Topic: Special Provision for Certain Classes (Reservation of seats in Parliament and State Legislatures)
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