 Article 81 of the Constitution of India 1949 has specified maximum strength of members of parliament in the Lok Sabha to be 552.Total strength during the 16th Lok Sabha is 545 against approved strength of 552.The number of members of parliament is distributed among the States in such a way that the ratio between the number of seats allotted to each State and the population of the State is, so far as practicable, the same for all States.