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Repeal of municipal act
April 22 , 2023
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- The Nagaland state government is repealing the Nagaland Municipal Act of 2001 recently.
- This led to the cancellation of the State Election Commission’s notification for holding elections to Nagaland’s 39 urban local bodies (ULBs) with 33% of the seats reserved for women.
- Nagaland is the only State where ULB seats are not reserved for women as mandated by clause IV of the 74th Amendment to the Constitution of India.
- Most of the traditional tribal and urban organisations oppose the 33% reservation of seats for women.
- They argued that such reservation would violate the special provisions granted by Article 371A of the Constitution to Nagaland.
- The Article states that no Act of Parliament would apply to the religious or social practices of the Nagas, Naga customary law and procedure, administration of civil and criminal justice involving decisions according to Naga customary law, and ownership and transfer of land and its resources.
- The first and only civic body election in Nagaland was held in 2004 without any reservation of seats for women.
- The then State government amended the 2001 Municipal Act in 2006 to include 33% reservation for women in line with the 74th Amendment.
- In September 2012, the State Assembly passed a resolution to exempt Nagaland from Article 243T of the Constitution which is related to the reservation for women.
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