'Important Aspect Of Gender Equality Getting Postponed' : Supreme Court Asks Nagaland Govt To Implement 33% Women Reservation In Local Bodies

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the State of Nagaland, six weeks to report back as to how it proposed to implement 33% reservation for women in Municipalities and Town Councils.The directions were issued by bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh while considering a petition by a Peoples Union for Civil Liberties and woman activist Rosemary Dvuchu who had. The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the State of Nagaland, six weeks to report back as to how it proposed to implement 33% reservation for women in Municipalities and Town Councils. The directions were issued by bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh while considering a petition by a Peoples Union for Civil Liberties and woman activist Rosemary Dvuchu who had challenged Nagaland Assembly's resolution dated September 22, 20212 that exempted operation of Part IX A of the Constitution which mandates 33% reservation for women in municipal and town councils in the State. b) Request by letter dated March 10, 2021 to take up amendment of Section 33 and 34 of the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001 in line with Department of Justice and Law's observation Proposal by letter dated February 15 and August 17, 2021 to conduct summary revision of E-rolls for 3 Municipal Councils, 29 Town Councils and fresh E-rolls for the newly created Town Councils in the State State Election Commission in the note also pointed out that last summary revision was done in 2016 after which no summary revision took place till date which led to a huge gap in the available old datas and creation of 7 new Town Councils vide Government Notification dated November 13, 2019.