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Assembly of Mizoram shall consist of not less than 40 members.
54. The Constitution (Fifty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1986—This Act increases the salaries of Supreme
Court and High Court judges as follows :
Chief Justice of India
Judges of Supreme Court
Chief Justice of High Court
Judges of High Court
` 10,000 per month
` 9,000 per month
` 9,000 per month
` 8,000 per month
This Act amended Part ‘D’ of the Second Schedule to the Constitution to give effect to the
above increases in the salaries of judges and to make an enabling provision in Articles 125 and 221
to provide for changes in the salaries of judges in future by Parliament by law.
55. The Constitution (Fifty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1986—This Act seeks to give effect to the proposal
of Government of India to confer statehood on the Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh and for
this purpose, a new Article 371H has been inserted which, inter alia, confers, having regard to the
sensitive location of Arunachal Pradesh to vest special responsibility on Governor of the new State
of Arunachal Pradesh with respect to law and order in the State and in the discharge of his functions,
the Governor shall after consulting the Council of Ministers, exercise his individual judgement, as
to the action to be taken and this responsibility shall cease when President so directs. The new
Article also provides that the new Legislative Assembly of the new State of Arunachal Pradesh,
shall consist of not less than thirty members.
56. The Constitution (Fifty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1987—Government of India has proposed to
constitute the territories comprised in Goa District of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu
as the State of Goa and the territories comprised in Daman and Diu districts of that Union Territory
as a new Union Territory of Daman and Diu. In this context, it was proposed that the Legislative
Assembly of the new State of Goa shall consist of 40 members. The existing Legislative Assembly
of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu has 30 elected members and three nominated
members. It was intended to make this Assembly with the exclusion of two members representing
Daman and Diu districts the provisional Legislative Assembly for the new State of Goa until
elections are held on the expiry of the five year terms of the existing Assembly. It was, therefore,
decided to provide that the Legislative Assembly of the new State of Goa shall consist of not less
than 30 members. The special provision required to be made to give effect to this proposal is
carried out by this amendment.
57. The Constitution (Fifty-seventh amendment) Act, 1987—The Constitution (Fifty-first
Amendment) Act, 1984 was enacted to provide for reservation of seats in the house of the people
for scheduled tribes in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh and also for
reservation of seats for scheduled tribes in the legislative assemblies of Nagaland and Meghalaya
by suitably amending articles 330 and 332. Even though these states are predominantly tribal, the
underlying objective of the aforesaid act was to ensure that the members of scheduled tribes in
these areas do not fail to secure a minimal representation because of their inability to compete
with the advanced sections of the people. The Constitution (fifty-first amendment) Act, though
formally enforced, could not be fully implemented unless parallel action is taken to determine the
seats which are to be reserved for Scheduled tribes in these areas. The number of seats reserved for
Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of any State under article 332 of
the constitution will have to be determined having regard to the provisions of article 332 (3) of the
Constitution. However, in view of the historical background with respect to the areas comprised
in north-eastern states, the circumstances obtaining in these areas in the State of development of
Scheduled Tribes and other relevant considerations, it was considered necessary to provide for
special arrangements with regard to the reservation for Scheduled Tribes in these areas for a
temporary period so as to facilitate easy transition of these areas to the normal arrangements as
envisaged in the Constitution. Article 332 of the Constitution was further amended for making a
temporary provision, until the re-adjustment of seats on the basis of first census after the year 2000
under article 170 of the Constitution for these states, for the determination of the number of seats
reserved for Scheduled Tribes. This amendment seeks to provide that if all the seats in the Legislative