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India Follows Nepal On Making Reservation For Women
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 10, 2010: the Upper House of India has passed the bill on amending the constitution for making provision for reserving one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatures for women amid protests by the leaders of the caste-based political parties. The bill has to go through the Lower House of the parliament and through at least the 50% of the state legislature before it goes to the President for putting her seal of approval for making an amendment to the constitution.
It is a matter of glory to the Nepalis as India has been following Nepal to make provision for insuring women’s participation in the national politics, and also has followed Nepal for providing senior citizens with pensions for their subsistence in their old age.
Some reporters write India is a largest democracy but it is a false impression some reporters have been giving to the public. Democracy is flourishing in the urban areas only not in the rural areas of India. Rural people have been living in the same political and economic conditions that their ancestors had lived two hundred years ago.
India has the largest corrupt bureaucracy. The police are the most brutal and not protecting the poor rather working for the powerful and rich people. Judiciary has been very slow and costly for the people so most often than not the poor are the victims of the police, the bureaucracy and the slow judiciary.
