{"id":232577,"date":"2024-01-17T00:16:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=232577"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:16:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:46:53","slug":"sc-to-hear-on-22-jan-plea-seeking-implementation-of-womens-reservation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/sc-to-hear-on-22-jan-plea-seeking-implementation-of-womens-reservation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to hear on 22 Jan plea seeking implementation of women’s reservation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI, 16 Jan:<\/strong> The Supreme Court will hear on 22 January a plea of Congress leader Jaya Thakur that has sought immediate implementation of the Nari Shakti Vandan Act-2023, so that one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies are reserved for women before the general election.<\/p>\n

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta noted on Tuesday that no lawyer has appeared for the Centre, and adjourned the matter for further hearing on 22 January.<\/p>\n

Senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for Thakur, said, “There is urgency in this matter. If the law is implemented, then it will be given effect during the general election.”<\/p>\n

Justice Khanna said, “Look, I am not saying anything. Let the other side come. We will take up the matter next Monday.”<\/p>\n

On 3 November, 2023, the top court had said that it would be “very difficult” for the court to strike down a part of the women’s reservation law that says that it will come into effect after the census.<\/p>\n

It had refused to issue notice on a plea moved by Thakur and asked the counsel for the petitioner to serve the copy on the lawyer representing the Centre.<\/p>\n

On 21 September last year, the watershed bill to reserve one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women received the parliamentary nod.<\/p>\n

The constitution amendment bill was passed by the Lok Sabha with near unanimity and the Rajya Sabha with unanimity.<\/p>\n

The law will take some time before being implemented as the next census and the subsequent delimitation exercise – redrawing of Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies – will ascertain the particular seats being earmarked for women.<\/p>\n

The quota for women in the Lok Sabha and assemblies will continue for 15 years, and Parliament can later extend the benefit period.<\/p>\n

While there is quota within quota for scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) women, the opposition had demanded that the benefit be extended to other backward classes.<\/p>\n

There have been several efforts to pass the bill in Parliament since 1996. The last such attempt was made in 2010, when the Rajya Sabha approved a bill for women’s reservation, but it could not be passed in the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n

Data show that women MPs account for nearly 15 per cent of the Lok Sabha’s strength, while their representation is below 10 per cent in many state assemblies.<\/p>\n

On 29 September last year, President Droupadi Murmu had given her assent to the bill. (PTI)<\/p>\n

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NEW DELHI, 16 Jan: The Supreme Court will hear on 22 January a plea of Congress leader Jaya Thakur that has sought immediate implementation of the Nari Shakti Vandan Act-2023, so that one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies are reserved for women before the general election. A bench of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}