Women’s quota, panchayats to Parliament

The landmark Women’s Reservation Bill — present the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act — that reserves one-third of the full seats successful the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies for women received statesmanlike assent recently. As the archetypal instrumentality passed successful the caller Parliament gathering during a peculiar session, it portends a caller section successful India’s antiauthoritarian journey.

It comes connected the 30th day of the law reforms that reserved one-third of seats successful panchayats and municipalities for women. Since then, determination person been aggregate unsuccessful attempts to widen women’s preservation to the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. While its last enactment is momentous, it is contingent connected the behaviour of delimitation and census.