{"id":17330,"date":"2023-09-12T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2023-09-20T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T10:00:12","slug":"womens-reservation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/12-09-2023\/womens-reservation-bill","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Reservation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/Indian Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The women&#8217;s reservation bill is likely to be tabled in the<strong> special session of Parliament.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What is the Women&#8217;s Reservation Bill?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Constitution (One Hundred and Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2008 seeks <strong>to reserve one-third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The allocation of reserved seats shall be determined by such authority as prescribed by Parliament.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The bill proposes <strong>sub-reservation for SCs, STs and Anglo-Indians <\/strong>within the 33% quota.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These reserved seats may be<strong> allotted by rotation to different constituencies<\/strong> in the state or union territory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reservation of seats for women shall <strong>cease to exist 15 years after the commencement of this Amendment Act.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Background<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1989:<\/strong> It was former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who first planted the seed of women reservation in elected bodies by introducing the Constitution Amendment Bill to provide one-third reservation for women in rural and urban local bodies.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Bill was passed in Lok Sabha but failed to get passed in Rajya Sabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993:<\/strong> In 1992 and 1993, then prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao reintroduced the <strong>Constitution Amendment Bills 72 and 73,<\/strong> which reserved one third (33%) of all seats and chairperson posts for women in rural and urban local bodies.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Bills were passed by both the houses and became the law of the nation.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1996:<\/strong> In 1996, then Deve Gowda-led United Front government for the first time introduced the <strong>81st Constitution Amendment Bill<\/strong> in Lok Sabha for reservation of women in the Parliament.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After the Bill failed to get approval in Lok Sabha, it was referred to a <strong>Joint Parliamentary Committee chaired by Geeta Mukherjee.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Mukherjee commttee presented its <strong>report in 1996.<\/strong> However, the Bill lapsed with the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1999-2003:<\/strong> The Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government pushed the WRB Bill in the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998. However, this time too, the Bill failed to get support, and lapsed again.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008:<\/strong> The government tabled it in 2008,<strong> this time in Rajya Sabha to prevent it from lapsing again.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Five of the seven recommendations made by the 1996 Geeta Mukherjee Committee were included in this version of the Bill.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Bill was eventually <strong>passed in the Rajya Sabha<\/strong> with 186-1 votes on March 9, 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014: <\/strong>However, the Bill was never taken up for consideration in the Lok Sabha and eventually <strong>lapsed in 2014<\/strong>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bills introduced\/ passed in Rajya Sabha do not lapse, hence the Women&#8217;s Reservation Bill is still very much active.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Need for the Bill<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The current Lok Sabha has the <strong>highest-ever percentage<\/strong> of women MPs, at 14 percent, which is <strong>lower than the global average of 24 percent.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is the necessity of <strong>affirmative action<\/strong> to improve the condition of women. Some recent studies on panchayats have shown the positive effect of reservation on the <strong>empowerment of women <\/strong>and on the allocation of resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The World Economic Forum\u2019s Gender Gap Index has<strong> four dimensions<\/strong> \u2013 Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and <strong>Political Empowerment.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is also an argument that having a <strong>diverse group of people<\/strong> in powerful positions helps institutions view things from a<strong> variety of perspectives.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/bima-sugam-upi-insurance-explained-8946371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS2\/Indian Polity In News What is the Women&#8217;s Reservation Bill? 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