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50
percent seats for women in Maharashtra local government bodies
Wednesday March 09, 2011 06:46:18 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: In a
significant move, the Maharashtra cabinet Wednesday approved
hiking reservation from 33 percent to 50 percent for women in all
local self-government bodies.
"This is a historic decision. We shall introduce the bill in the
forthcoming budget session giving 50 percent reservation to women
in all local government bodies," Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan
told mediapersons here.
The local self-government bodies include municipalities, zilla
parishads, gram-panchayats and gram sabhas.
The United Progressive Alliance government at the centre has
earlier approved 33 percent reservation for women in various
bodies.
Incidentally, the Nationalist Congress Party had recently proposed
an increase in the quota for women in local government bodies from
33 to 50 percent.
Last week, NCP chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar
had asked his party activists to pursue the demand vigorously.
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