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Article: India: Fifty-Fifty: Making Panchayati Raj Reservations For Women Work
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- Women's Feature Service
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- August 31, 2009
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The Indian government's move to raise reservation for women from 33 per cent to 50 per cent at all tiers of local government is historic. Not only does it recognise that women, who constitute 50 per cent of the population, must have adequate representation in the public space, it also validates the good work of several women grassroots leaders who have helped transform their communities and localities. But if such reservation has to go beyond the ...
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