The One Hundred and Second Amendment of the
Constitution of India
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, officially known as the Constitution (One Hundred and Second Amendment) Act, 2018, granted constitutional status to the
National Commission for Backward Classes
India's National Commission for Backward Classes is a constitutional body (123rd Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2017 and 102nd Amendment Act, 2018 in the constitution to make it a constitutional body under Article 338B of the Indian Constitutio ...
(NCBC).
Legislative history
The bill of the Constitution (One Hundred and Second Amendment) Act, 2018 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 5 April 2017 as the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-third Amendment) Bill, 2017. It was introduced by
Thawar Chand Gehlot
Thawar Chand Gehlot (born 18 May 1948) is an Indian politician who is the current and 19th Governor of Karnataka, being the first person serving as the Governor of Karnataka from Madhya Pradesh. He assumed office of the Governor of Karnataka on ...
, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 10 April 2017.
The bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha the following day. The House adopted a motion to refer the Bill to a Standing Committee composed of 25 members and chaired by
Bhupender Yadav
Bhupender Yadav (born 30 June 1969) is an Indian politician who serves as the Union Cabinet Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Government of India. He is the National General Secretary of the Bh ...
. The Select Committee tabled its report before the Rajya Sabha on 19 July 2017.
The Rajya Sabha passed the Bill on 31 July 2017, after making one amendment. The Bill was transmitted back to the
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...
for concurrence. However, the House did not adopt the amendment made by the Rajya Sabha and instead adopted alternate amendments to the Bill and passed it on 2 August 2018. The Bill, as passed by the Lok Sabha, was passed unanimously by the Rajya Sabha on 8 August 2018 receiving 156 ayes from all members present and voting.
The Bill received assent from President
Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the second person after K. R. Narayanan, from the Dalit community ...
on 11 August 2018. It was notified in ''
The Gazette of India
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'' on the same date.
Judicial pronouncements
On May 5, 2021, in the hearing of ''Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018'' which extends reservation to the Maratha community in public education and employment the
Supreme Court of India
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upheld this constitutional amendment.
[{{Cite web, last=Roy, first=Debayan, title= REAKINGSupreme Court strikes down Maratha Reservation law for exceeding 50 percent cap; upholds Indra Sawhney, 102nd Constitutional Amendment, url=https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-strikes-down-maratha-reservation-law-upholds-50-percent-cap-indra-sawhney, access-date=2021-08-13, website=Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news, language=en]
See also
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101st Constitution Amendment
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103rd Constitution Amendment
References
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