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Women's Reservation Bill   Women's Reservation Bill or the The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, is a pending bill in India which proposes to provide 'thirty three per cent of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India  the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies shall be reserved for women.  The Upper House Rajya Sabha passed it on 9 Mar 2010. The seats to be reserved in rotation will be determined by draw of lots in such a way that a seat shall be reserved only once in three consecutive general elections.