Women in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation: A Study in the Context of the Debate on the Women's Reservation Bill

Stephanie Tawa Lema-Rewal

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Abstract: This article presents the findings of a survey conducted in 2000 in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), where quotas – 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Occassional Paper No. 2]

Keywords: survey; Calcutta. quotas; women; reservation; bill; case study; SC; ST; government; panchayat; decentralisation; Panchayati Raj; India; city; constitutional; population; Chennai; Scheduled Castes; Scheduled Tribes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09
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