• Dr.P.Nagarajan

Abstract: Panchayatiraj is not a new phenomenon in India. It was evidence in the several years goes back to more than 1000 years. After the implementation of various legal and constitutional provision, particularly the 73rd Constitutional Amendment act 1992 and 73rd alterations 1993 make the space for active participation of women in panchayat raj institutions and the decision making process at the gross-root level by providing that One-Third of the seats would be reserved for women particularly for rural women. Seventy-Third Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 exclusively created the reservation for Women in Panchayatraj system it’s set-up by two ways for the office bearers of the members and also for that of the Chair-Persons and also not below than One-Third of the seats intended for shortest election of the members at each step of the local bodies are to be reserved for women. Therefore, it would be adopted the qualitative and descriptive research methods alongwith collected the secondary sources from books, journals, magazines, appropriate websites.

Constitutional Amendment, Women Empowerment, Panchayatraj, Reservation

"RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGHPANCHAYAT RAJ INSTITUTION IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.934-936, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I15.pdf

"RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGHPANCHAYAT RAJ INSTITUTION IN INDIA: AN OVERVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp934-936, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I15.pdf