{"id":261265,"date":"2023-09-22T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=261265"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:39:42","slug":"rajya-sabha-clears-womens-reservation-bill-unanimously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rajya-sabha-clears-womens-reservation-bill-unanimously\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajya Sabha clears women\u2019s reservation bill unanimously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Rajya Sabha clears women\u2019s reservation bill unanimously<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 22nd September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parliament has passed the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023 or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill seeks to reserve one-third of all seats for women in Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the key provisions of Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-hails-passage-of-the-constitution-one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth-amendment-bill-2023-in-the-lok-sabha\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the participation of women in Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Parliament<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Women\u2019s representation in Lok Sabha has increased from 5% in the first Lok Sabha to 15% in the current Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, 15% of Lok Sabha MPs and 13% of Rajya Sabha MPs are women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The highest proportion of women representatives elected to Lok Sabha so far was in the 2019 elections, but it was nearly 15% of total membership while the highest proportion of women representatives to Rajya Sabha stood at 12.7% in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among parties with more than 10 seats in Lok Sabha, 42% of Biju Janata Dal(BJD) MPs and 39% of Trinamool Congress(TMC) MPs are women. In Rajya Sabha, 17% of Indian National Congress (INC) MPs are women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>State Assemblies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> No state has more than 20% women representation in its Assembly .Chhattisgarh has the highest representation with 18% women MLAs while Himachal Pradesh has just one woman MLA and Mizoram has none.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cRajya Sabha clears women\u2019s reservation bill unanimously\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 22nd September 2023 What is the News? Parliament has passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023 or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. The Bill seeks to reserve one-third of all seats for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rajya-sabha-clears-womens-reservation-bill-unanimously\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rajya Sabha clears women\u2019s reservation bill unanimously<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1731,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-261265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-bill-and-acts","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":7,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698446717},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261265","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}