79.       The Constitution (Seventy-ninth Amendment) Act, 1999—By this Act the Government
      has extended the reservations of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes as well
      as for the Anglo-Indians in the House of the People and in the Legislative Assemblies of the
      States for another ten years.
      80.       The Constitution (Eightieth Amendment) Act, 2000—Based on the recommendations of
      the Tenth Finance Commission, an alternative scheme for sharing taxes between the Union and
      the States has been enacted by the Constitution (Eightieth Amendment) Act, 2000. Under the
      new scheme of devolution of revenue between Union and the States, 26 per cent out of gross
      proceeds of Union taxes and duties is to be assigned to the States in lieu of their existing share in
      the income-tax, excise duties, special excise duties and grants in lieu of tax on railway passenger
      fares.
      81.       The Constitution (Eighty-first Amendment) Act, 2000—By this amendment the unfilled
      vacancies of a year which were reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes for
      being filled up in that year in accordance with any provision for reservations made under Article
      16 of the Constitution, shall be considered as a separate class of vacancies to be filled up in any
      succeeding year or years, and such class of vacancies shall not be considered together with the
      vacancies of the year in which they were filled up for determining the ceiling of fifty per cent
      reservation against total number of vacancies of that year.
      82.       The Constitution (Eighty-second Amendment) Act, 2000—The amendment provides that
      nothing in Article 335 shall prevent the State from making any provision in favour of the
      members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes for relaxation in qualifying marks in
      any examination or lowering the standards of evaluation for reservation in matters of promotion
      to any class or classes of services or posts in connection with affairs of the Union or of a State.
      83.       The Constitution (Eighty-third Amendment) Act, 2000—The Act amended Acticle 243M
      of the Constitution to provide that no reservation in Panchayats need be made in favour of the
      Scheduled Castes in Arunachal Pradesh wholly inhabited by tribal population.
      84.       The Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act, 2001—The Act amended provisos to
      articles 82 and 170(3) of the Constitution to readjust and rationalise the territorial constituencies
      in the States, without altering the number of seats allotted to each State in House of People and
      Legislative Assemblies of the States, including the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
      constituencies, on the basis of the population ascertained at the census for the year 1991 so as to
      remove the imbalance caused due to uneven growth of population/electorate in different
      constituencies. It is also to refix the number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the
      Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People and the Legislative Assemblies of the States on the
      basis of the population ascertained at the census for the year 1991 so as to remove the imbalance
      caused due to uneven growth of population/electorate in different constituencies. It is also to
      refix the number of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the House
      of the People and the Legislative Assemblies of the States on the basis of the population
      ascertained at the census for the year 1991.
      85.       The Constitution (Eighty-fifth Amendment) Act, 2001—This Act amended article 16(4A)
      of the Constitution to provide for consequential seniority in the case of promotion by virtue of
      rule of reservation for the Government servants belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the
      Scheduled Tribes. It also provides retrospective effect from 17th day of June 1995.
      86.       The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002—The Act deals with insertion of