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    In Union Interim Budget 2024-25, Gender Budget shows the largest-ever rise of 38.6%

    Posted 03 Feb 2024

    Updated 19 Mar 2024

    2 min read

    • Gender Budget Component accounted for 6.5 % of the total Budget.
      • Allocation of women specific schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana increased considerably. 

     

    • About Gender Budgeting
      • It aims to ensure that public resources are collected and spent efficiently based on differing gender needs and priorities.
        • In India, gender Budgeting was started in 2005-06. 
      • It does not indicate a creation of a separate Budget for women; rather it seeks to address the specific needs of women.
      • It broadly comprises two parts-
        •  Part A includes programmes that are completely meant for women.
        •  Part B includes all those programmes where at least 30% of the provisions are women-centric.
      • It also comes under the Samarthya, sub-scheme of Mission Shakti. 
        • Mission Shakti is an initiative of Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) to empower Women. 
          • Mission Shakti’s other sub scheme is Sambal which promotes safety and security of women. 
      • Nodal Agency: MWCD at central, similarly concerned department act as nodal ehency at state/UTs and district level 
      • For its implementation, Ministry of Finance issued direction to all central Ministries/Departments to set up Gender Budget Cells.

     

    • Challenges faced in Gender Budgeting: Lack of coordination between different stakeholder, expertise in gender analysis and data, etc.

    Way to Make Gender Budgeting More Effective

    • Conduct gender analysis of national and sub-national policies, legal frameworks, etc.
    • Assess the adequacy of budget allocations to implement the gender responsive policies and programmes.
    • Conduct and promote gender-based impact assessments, beneficiary needs assessment, etc.
    • Tags :
    • budget
    • Gender Budget
    • Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
    • Mission Shakti
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