Main Provisions of the Communal Award

● Muslims, Europeans, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo- Indians, depressed classes, women, and even the Marathas were to get separate electorates. Such an arrangement for the depressed classes was to be made for a period of 20 years.

● In the provincial legislatures, the seats were to be distributed on communal basis.

● The existing seats of the provincial legislatures were to be doubled.

● The Muslims, wherever they were in minority, were to be granted a weightage.

● Except in the North West Frontier Province, 3 per cent seats were to be reserved for women in all provinces.

● The depressed classes to be declared/accorded the status of minority.

● The depressed classes were to get ‘double vote’, one to be used through separate electorates and the other to be used in the general electorates.

● Allocation of seats were to be made for labourers, landlords, traders and industrialists.

● In the province of Bombay, 7 seats were to be allocated for the Marathas.