Empowering Women: The Push for the Women's Reservation Act

Empowering Women: The Push for the Women's Reservation Act

Empowering Women: The Push for the Women's Reservation Act Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the immediate implementation of the Women's Reservation Act, emphasizing its necessity for the 2029 Lok Sabha elections to include a women's quota.In a letter to leading parliamentarians, Modi urged unity to pass key amendments to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam during an upcoming special assembly session.The Act, amending the Constitution in …

Women’s quota bill with LS seat expansion set for Parl showdown: What it proposes, can it pass?

New Delhi: The budget session of Parliament has been extended by three days as the Centre prepares to introduce an amendment to implement the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. The special session will focus on enabling women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies before the 2027 census is completed. The original constitutional amendment was passed in 2023 but linked implementation to delimitation and census exercises. Under those provis…

PM urges early rollout of women’s quota in letter to floor leaders

The Centre has convened a three-day special session of Parliament to consider amendments to the Act, which currently ties the implementation of 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies to the completion of the delimitation process based on the 2027 Census.

Time has come to implement Women's Reservation Act: PM Modi's letter to LS, RS floor leaders

New Delhi, Apr 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the time has come for the implementation of the Women's Reservation Act in its true spirit and the 2029 Lok Sabha elections and Assembly elections are conducted with the quota for women in place. In a letter to the floor leaders of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, ahead of the three-day special sittings of Parliament, Modi also asked all members to come together in one voice to pass the ame…