Women's quota bill on Monday

PM assures commitment to women's empowerment

PTI | March 6, 2010



Affirming his commitment to women's empowerment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that his government was moving towards providing one-third reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures.

Opening a women's leadership summit here, he said the government was committed to social, economic and political empowerment of women, whatever effort and resources the task might take.

The Women's Reservation Bill providing for 33 per cent reservation of seats for women in Lok Sabha and state Assemblies is expected to come up in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.

Observing that reservation for women in local bodies had revolutionised governance at the grass-roots level, he said, "We hope to give this movement of political participation of women further fillip by increasing the number of seats reserved in panchayats and city and town governments to 50 percent".

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