Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Reservation to Women in the Legislature
During the years several steps have been taken for
empowerment of women and one such step was to provide reservation for
women in Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies. The Government put a
step forward and introduced a Bill, namely, the Constitution (One
Hundred Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2008 in the Rajya Sabha on the 6th May,
2008 to provide inter alia for, as nearly as may be, one-third
(including the number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct
election to the House of People and to the State Legislative Assemblies
and the Legislative Assembly of National Capital Territory of Delhi
shall be reserved for the women. Afterwards, the Chairman, Rajya Sabha
on the 8th May, 2008 referred the Bill to the Departmental Related
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, and
Law and Justice for examination and report. Giving this information in
written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Shri Salman Khurshid,
Minister of Law & Justice, said that the Committee presented its
36th Report on the Bill to the Rajya Sabha/ laid in the Lok Sabha on the
17th December, 2009. The Rajya Sabha passed the Bill on 9th March,
2010. The Bill is to be passed by the Lok Sabha and is also required to
be ratified by the Legislatures of not less than one-half of the States
by resolution.
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