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Women's Reservation Bill: quotas even for SC/ST seats
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, March 09, 2010
First Published: 23:59 IST(9/3/2010)
Last Updated: 00:00 IST(10/3/2010)
Reservation of one-third seats in Lok Sabha and Assemblies for women
cleared by the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday will also apply in case of
constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
The landmark Women's Reservation Bill also envisages rotation of seats
so reserved for women.
In continuation of the existing provisions already mandating
reservations for scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, one-third of
such SC and ST candidates must be women, according to the provisions
of the Constitution (One Hundred and Eighth Amendment Bill, 2008),
popularly known as Women's Reservation Bill. There are 543 seats in
the Lok Sabha, out of which 122 are already reserved for SC and ST
candidates.
The Bill, which has touched a raw nerve in some political outfits,
seeks to insert two new articles in the Constitution to provide
one-third reservation to women in Legislatures.
"After article 330 of the Constitution, the following article shall be
inserted: 330A. Seats shall be reserved for women in the House of the
People," it said.
To provide reservation for women in state Assemblies, the Bill seeks
to insert Article 332A in the Constitution.
According to the Bill, provided that where a seat reserved for
Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in relation to a state or a Union
Territory is one, then in every block comprising of three Lok Sabha
elections, the seat in the first LS election "shall" be reserved for
women belonging to SCs or STs "and no seat shall be reserved in other
two general elections".
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