Gender Budgeting
India’s Gender Budget reached 1% of GDP estimates in 2024-25 for the first time, highlighting a significant push for women-led development. The overall allocations for pro-women programs stand at more than Rs. 3,00,000 crore.
What is Gender Budgeting?
- Also known as Gender Responsive Budgeting(GRB), it is a strategy to integrate a gender perspective within the overall public financial management process to promote gender equality
- It includes preparing budgets and analyzing them from a gender lens to ensure that benefits of development are equitably distributed.
- GRB was introduced in India in 2005-2006.
- Nodal Ministry: The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) ....
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