📜 Official Text

This Part doesn't apply to Scheduled Areas or tribal areas under Article 244, to Nagaland/Meghalaya/Mizoram, to Manipur's District Council hill areas, or (for district-level Panchayats) to Darjeeling's hill areas covered by the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council - and Article 243D's SC reservation doesn't apply to Arunachal Pradesh. However, a covered state's own Legislature can choose to extend this Part to itself by a special-majority resolution, and Parliament can extend it (with modifications) to Scheduled/tribal areas by ordinary law.