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Women who are taking part July 9, 2008

Posted by ivanildafigueiredo in News.
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Tejaswini Seeramesh Gowda, Krishna Tirath, Kiran Maheswari and P. Satheedevi were the last four women to join the parliamentary committee on the women’s reservation Bill. At the time it was referred to the standing committee on law and justice there were no women members in it. The controversial Bill, that intends to provide 33% of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies to women, was hanging for 12 years. Now, they have been given three months to submit a report on the Bill.

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