{"id":260979,"date":"2023-09-20T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=260979"},"modified":"2023-09-20T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:58:16","slug":"33-the-details-implementing-womens-reservation-will-need-a-lot-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/33-the-details-implementing-womens-reservation-will-need-a-lot-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"33%: The Details \u2013 Implementing women\u2019s reservation will need a lot of work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on articles:<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen\u2019s reservation Bill \u2013 finally, a House of equality<\/strong>\u201d published in<\/strong> The Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a020th<\/sup> September 2023<\/strong> and<\/p>\n

\u201c33%: The Details \u2013 Implementing women\u2019s reservation will need a lot of work, some of it complex & politically fraught<\/strong>\u201d published in<\/strong> The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a020th<\/sup> September 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance \u2013 Government Policies & Intervention<\/strong><\/p>\n

The points of these articles have been covered in the following article:<\/p>\n

Women Reservation Bill \u2013 Explained Pointwise<\/a><\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> The Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill, 2023, was introduced in Parliament, proposing a 33% reservation for women in legislative bodies. The article discusses the Bill and explains how reservation can elevate women’s status in society.<\/p>\n

How has the reservation of seats for women in local bodies contributed to improving their status in society?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Reserving seats for women in local government positions like sarpanches, block pramukhs, etc. increased their respect at home and in the community, reduced domestic abuse, and ensured that women<\/strong> in similar roles were heard and respected.<\/p>\n

Women’s empowerment is often viewed as urban-centrically, but reservations in local bodies, like panchayat elections, offer rural women a distinct experience that brings them respect and recognition in their communities.<\/p>\n

How will the Women\u2019s Reservation Bill grant recognition to women?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Women\u2019s Reservation Bill aims to increase women’s representation. Increased female presence will boost confidence in being heard and will build a supportive ecosystem for women’s rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Reservation Bill could increase women MPs from 82 to 181.<\/strong> It seeks sub-reservation for SCs, STs, and Anglo Indians.<\/p>\n

It proposes adding a clause to Article 330 A<\/strong>, reserving one-third of Lok Sabha seats for women within the SC and ST categories and one-third directly elected women.<\/p>\n

The Bill also seeks to insert a subsection in Clause 2 of Article 239 AA<\/strong>, reserving seats for women in Delhi’s legislative assembly, with one-third within SC and ST categories.<\/p>\n

Therefore, this legislative effort is considered a progressive step for participatory democracy, which values inclusion rather than exclusion<\/strong>. However, despite this, there are still concerns present with the Bill.<\/p>\n

What are the concerns with the Bill?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Enactment of the Bill:<\/strong> Reservation for women in Parliament depends on the census and delimitation process.<\/p>\n

However, the census has been delayed and delimitation could be politically sensitive, especially impacting southern India,<\/strong> which has seen slower population growth due to its development progress.<\/p>\n

Hence, the 2002 freeze on delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies will continue until after 2026, which is around the time, the delayed Census 2021 data is expected to be released.<\/p>\n

This means that reservation for women in Parliament will likely not start until after 2026<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reservation within Reservation:<\/strong> The new bill reserves one-third of seats for women, with a further reservation within that quota for women from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.<\/p>\n

However, some political groups have also called for the inclusion of OBC and minority reservation as well.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rotation of Reserved Seats:<\/strong> The Bill proposes to rotate reserved seats after each delimitation exercise which will be determined by Parliament. However, it is unclear how this will be implemented. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Rotating one-third of seats before each election is being considered the fairest approach.<\/strong> However, since the bill is expected to come into effect after the next census and delimitation, there is time to find other solutions.<\/p>\n

What lies ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Bill ensures women’s representation, transforming politics and addressing social inequalities.<\/p>\n

It aims to create an enlightened democracy by removing entry barriers and fundamentally reshaping parliamentary democracy, giving Indian women their rightful place in Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on articles: \u201cWomen\u2019s reservation Bill \u2013 finally, a House of equality\u201d published in The Indian Express on\u00a020th September 2023 and \u201c33%: The Details \u2013 Implementing women\u2019s reservation will need a lot of work, some of it complex & politically fraught\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a020th September 2023. Syllabus:… Continue reading 33%: The Details \u2013 Implementing women\u2019s reservation will need a lot of work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[300,212,10500,10496],"class_list":["post-260979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":3,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698408852},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}