Women's Reservation Bill

Women's Reservation Bill or the The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, is a pending bill in India which proposes to provide thirty three per cent of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies shall be reserved for women. The Upper House Rajya Sabha passed it on 9 Mar 2010 .

The seats to be reserved in rotation will be determined by draw of lots in such a way that a seat shall be reserved only once in three consecutive general elections.

Women's reservations

Women get 33 percent reservation in gram panchayat (meaning village assembly, which is a form of local village government) and municipal elections. There is a long-term plan to extend this reservation to parliament and legislative assemblies. In addition, women in India get reservation or preferential treatments in education and jobs. Certain men consider this preferential treatment of women in India as discrimination against them in admissions to schools, colleges, and universities. For instance, several law schools in India have a 30% reservation for females. Progressive political opinion in India is strongly in favour of providing preferential treatment to women in order to create a level playing field for all of its citizens.

Since,

• More women participation in politics and society.
• Social norms in India strongly favour men, therefore, reservation for women is expected to create equal opportunity for men and women.
• Due to female foeticide .infantacide and issues related to women's health, sex ratio in India is alarming at 1.06 males per female. It is expected this will change the society to give equal status to women.^{[citation needed]}
• Women will get 33% reservation after this bill is passed and condition of women will improve.

External links

• Women's reservation bill - A social necessity, national obligation, By Rajindar Sachar
• - Reasoned arguments against the Bill, by Sanjeev Sabhlok