Government to amend constitution in Budget session to give 50 percent reservation to owmen in Panchayats

The Government will bring constitutional amendment in upcoming budget session of Parliament to give 50 percent reservation to women in rural panchayats and urban local bodies. Announcing this at a conference in New Delhi today, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Birender Singh said, this will enhance reservation for women in panchayats at all tiers from the current one-third to at least 50



per cent.

Mr Singh said, reservation for women in panchayats will facilitate more women to enter public sphere and it will empower them and strengthen country’s parliamentary democracy at the grassroot level. He said, government will bring another constitutional amendment to increase the tenure of ward reservation for women in panchayats from current five years to ten years.