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1. These are the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950; the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) (Union Territories) Order, 1951; the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950; the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) (Union Territories) Order, 1951 and so on. The Parliament modified the Presidential orders by enacting the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act in 1956, in 1976 and in the subsequent years.
2. The 102nd Amendment Act of 2018 inserted a new Article 342A in the constitution.
3. The 8th Amendment Act of 1959 extended the period of ten years to twenty years, the 23rd Amendment Act of
1969 to thirty years, the 45th Amendment Act of 1980 to forty years, the 62nd Amendment Act of 1989 to fifty years, the 79th Amendment Act of 1999 to sixty years and the 95th Amendment Act of 2009 to seventy years, that is, until the year 2020.
3a. This information is downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative Department).
4. M.P. Jain, Indian Constitutional Law, Wadhwa, Fourth Edition, p. 756.
5. For complete details in this regard, see Chapters 47 and 48.
6. Clause 10 of Article 338 reads as follows: "In this article, reference to the Scheduled Castes shall be construed as including references to the Anglo-Indian community”.
7. For complete details in this regard, see 'Mandal Commission and Aftermath’ in Chapter 7.