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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Reservation and Panchayat Raj institutions.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Politics and Society in India

Reservation is the 73rd Amendment's (1992) most distinctive feature: for three decades no other tier of Indian government carried a mandatory floor for women, and none reserved executive office by caste. Article 243D therefore did not merely decentralise power, it prescribed who would exercise it — making the panchayat the largest compulsory experiment in political…

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  • What Article 243D provides
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