The women’s reservation bill became an Act with the assent of President Droupadi which seeks to provide 33 percent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha(Art 330A) and state assemblies(Art 332A). It will be officially known as the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act.

              The Constitution 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts mandated the reservation of one-third of seats for women in Panchayati Raj institutions and offices of the chairperson at all levels of Panchayati Raj institutions, and in urban local bodies respectively; Constitution’s Part IX, titled “The Panchayats” and Part IXA titled “The Municipalities” respectively.

LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/ BASICS

A bill is a proposed legislation under consideration by the Parliament and an act is a formal document that becomes law after being passed by both houses of Parliament and receiving the President’s assent.

         Delimitation literally means the act or process of fixing limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country or a province having a legislative body.
The job of delimitation is assigned to a high-power body. Such a body is known
as Delimitation Commission or a Boundary Commission. In India, such Delimitation Commissions have been constituted 4 times – in 1952 under the Delimitation Commission Act, 1952, in 1963 under Delimitation Commission Act, 1962, in 1973 under Delimitation Act, 1972 and in 2002 under Delimitation Act, 2002.

The Delimitation Commission in India is a high-power body whose orders have the force of law and cannot be called into question before any court. These orders come into force on a date to be specified by the President of India in this behalf. The copies of its orders are laid before the House of the People and the State Legislative Assembly concerned, but no modifications are permissible therein by them.

       Under Article 82 of the Constitution, the Parliament by law enacts a Delimitation Act after every census. After coming into force commencement of the Act, the Central Government constitutes a Delimitation Commission. This Delimitation Commission demarcates the boundaries of the Parliamentary Constituencies as per provisions of the Delimitation Act.

           Under Article 170, States also get divided into territorial constituencies as per Delimitation Act after every Census. Once the Act is in force, the Union government sets up a Delimitation
Commission

          The present delimitation of constituencies has been done on the basis of 2001 census figures (87^th amendment act) under the provisions of Delimitation Act, 2002. Notwithstanding the above, the Constitution of India was specifically amended in 2002(84^th amendment act) not to have delimitation of constituencies till the first census after 2026. Thus, the present Constituencies carved out since 2001 census shall continue to be in operation till the first census after 2026.

The orders of the Delimitation Commission cannot be challenged in a Court of Law.

When the orders of the Delimitation Commission are laid before the Lok Sabha or State Legislative Assembly, they cannot effect any modification in the orders.