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Speaker
wants introduction of women's quota bill
Monday March 07, 2011 10:01:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Monday said she wants the women's
reservation bill to be introduced in the lower house in the
current session, but all the political parties have yet to arrive
at a consensus on it.
"I would want this bill to be introduced (in current session of
parliament), but all the parties have to arrive at a consensus.
That is the whole reason this (the bill) has been held up," Meira
Kumar told women journalists during an interaction on the eve of
International Women's Day (March 8).
The women's reservation bill, passed by the Rajya Sabha March 9
last year, seeks to reserve 33 percent seats for women in Lok
Sabha and the state assemblies. It has yet to be moved in the Lok
Sabha.
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