How much of an impact will the Women’s Reservation Bill have? | In Focus podcast

The Constitution 128th Amendment Bill, popularly known arsenic the Women’s Reservation Bill, was passed by some Houses of the Parliament past month. The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, arsenic the Bill is present known, seeks to reserve 33% of seats successful the Lok Sabha and each State Legislative Assemblies for women. 

It has taken the state implicit 25 years to walk the Bill, aft it was archetypal introduced successful the Lok Sabha successful 1996, by the past Deve Gowda-led United Front government. At that time, it was heatedly opposed, and subsequently, contempt being reintroduced respective times, the Bill was not passed, until this year.