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Ninety Second Amendment Act 2003
*Included four more languages in the eight schedule. They are - Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santhali.
Ninety Third Amendment Act 2005
*Reserved seats for socially and educationally backward classes or the Scheduled castes or the scheduled tribes in educational institutions including private educational institutions, (whether aided or unaided by the state).
Ninety Fourth Amendment Act 2006
*Provided for a Minister of Tribal welfare in the newly created states of Jharkhand and Chattisgargh.
*Freed Bihar from the Obligation of having a tribal welfare minister
Ninety Fifth Amendment Act 2009
*Extended the reservation of seats for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies upto 2020.
Women's Reservation Bill
*Women’s Reservation Bill or the constitution 108- Amendment Bill, proposes to amend the constitution of India to reserve 33 percent of the total seats in the Lok Sabha and in all state legislative assemblies for women.
*Women’s Reservation Bill was introduced for the first time in the Parliament in 1996.
*The Rajya Sabha passed the bill on 9th March 2010. However, the Lok Sabha has not yet been passed the bill.
50% Reservation for Women in Local Bodies
*The 110th and the 112th Constitutional Amendment Bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha in 2009. The Bills seek to amend Article 243-D and Article 243-T respectively to enhance the quantum of reservation for women from one-third to one-half of the total seats in the Panchayats and urban local bodies.
*While the bills are pending in the Parliament, most of the states, including Kerala have passed the law and raised the reservation for women in local bodies from 33% to 50%.
