Question

By an amendment in the Indian Constitution, women have been given reservation in Panchayats. That amendment is __________.
Option A: 70th Amendment, 1994
Option B: 72th Amendment, 1993
Option C: 73th Amendment, 1992
Option D: 74th Amendment, 1992

Answer 1

Hint: Panchayati Raj is the system of rural local self government. Panchayati Raj means the Council of five officials. It is charged with rural development. Panchayati Raj was constitutionalised through a Constitutional Amendment.

Complete answer: Option A: 70th Amendment, 1994 is the wrong answer to this question because this Amendment was made in 1992 instead of 1994. This Amendment provides for the inclusion of legislature’s members of Delhi and Pudducheri in the Electoral College for Presidential election.
Option B: 72th Amendment, 1993 is the wrong answer because this Amendment was not made in 1994 but made in 1992. This Amendment provided reservation to Scheduled Tribes in the State Legislative Assembly of Tripura.
Option C: 73th Amendment, 1992 is the correct answer because it inserted Part 9 in the constitution and gave reservation of one third seats for women in all three levels of Panchayats.
Option D: 74th Amendment, 1992 is not the correct answer because it added Part 9-A to the constitution and gave constitutional status to the Municipalities, local administration bodies in Urban areas.
Option C is the correct answer because the 73rd Constitutional Amendment has given women reservation in Panchayats.

Thus, The correct answer is Option C.

Note: 74th Amendment of Constitution provides for the reservation of not less than one third of the total number of seats for women including the seats reserved for women belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Municipality.
Do not get confused between 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments as the former is related to Panchayats and the latter is related to Municipalities.