The 106th Constitutional Amendment Act (Nari Shakti Vandan Adhinyam, 2023) is regarded as a landmark step towards women's empowerment and representation, making women led development and a tangible right. How do you think this will help in making the Indian political process more gender inclusive? (10 marks, 150 words)

Features: 33% reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies; seats demarcation based on next census (revised saturation); horizontal reservation across categories; making equity in political representation; women-led empowerment and tangible reality; empathy to gender budgeting; giving voice to 49% of population

making policy making process more gender inclusive is empowerment of women on lines of panchayati raj & women specific policy advocacy; compassion led policy formulation e.g. only about 27% of court complexes in India have washrooms.

However, there will be challenges: darapanth pati culture may creep into it; women are not a homogeneity group; lack of political training

Way Forward: political parties quota e.g. 1/3rd in Rwanda; capacity building – "She is a changemaker programme" that 50+ can be fasttracked on a mass scale.