Women's reservation bill

Reservations are acceptable as long as they are viewed as a means of facilitating equality of opportunity for the weaker sections of scoeity. The way to do it, however, would be to introduce a reservation bill in the parliamnent that has a specific expiry date. Every time the law comes up for renewal the govt should be required to support it with a white paper clearly stating what the policy has achieved and what it expects it to achieve further in the future. Such a white paper would also provide a proper basis for stimulating a proper debate on any reservations policy. In the absence of supporting facts any debate around reservations merely becomes a forum for posturing. It is one of the key reasons the women's reservations bill has been hanging fire for the last 14 years with little meaningful debate but at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. I hope the govt rectifies its mistake and issues a white paper before introducing the bill in the Lok Sabha