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Cabinet nod for amendment for more SC/ST women at Panchayats
PTI | 09:07 PM,Jul 21,2011
New Delhi, July 21 (PTI) Government today gave its nod to a minor
change to a Constitution Amendment Bill that would enable enhancing
representation of SC/ST women in Panchayats. The Union Cabinet, at a
meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved addition of
a word 'rural' before 'population' to a Clause of The Constitution
(110th Amendment) Bill. "The official Amendment proposes to add word
'rural' before the word 'population' as and where the same occur in
First Proviso of Clause (2) (iii) of the Constitution (110th
Amendment) Bill, 2009," Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika
Soni told reporters here. "This Provision will apply to the total
number of seats filled by direct election, offices of Chairpersons and
seats and offices of Chairpersons reserved for Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes," she said. The Bill, which was introduced in the Lok
Sabha in June last year, seeks to hike reservation for women in
Panchayats at all tiers from one third to at least 50 per cent. She
said the amendment was suggested by the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Rural Development in its report presented to the Lok
Sabha on July 28 last year. "This seems desirable since the proportion
of SC and ST in rural areas of a State usually differ from their
proportion to the population of the State," the Panchayati Raj
ministry had told the Committee. .
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