Overview
- The Lok Sabha approved the bill by voice vote on August 5, marking its first legislative success of the monsoon session.
- The bill tasks the Census Commissioner with estimating the Scheduled Tribe population in Goa and authorizes the Election Commission to amend the Delimitation Order of 2008.
- Once enacted, the law will reserve four of the 40 seats in the Goa Legislative Assembly for tribal communities based on their 10.23% share in the 2011 census.
- Opposition MPs repeatedly disrupted proceedings by demanding discussion of Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- Following Rajya Sabha concurrence and presidential assent, a delimitation exercise will redraw constituency boundaries ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.