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Gender Budget
Gender Budget
Gender budgeting is an important tool to analyse the budgets from the perspective of gender-specific fiscal expenditure.
| 24 Dec 2020 5:15 AM GMT
Gender budgeting is an important tool to analyse the budgets from the perspective of gender-specific fiscal expenditure. Its primary objective is to address the problem of gender inequality to ensure that Union and state budgets make allocations towards gender-specific schemes aimed at improving the socio-economic condition of women. It is heartening to know that while the share of the gender budget declined marginally in the Union budget for 2020-21, Assam has been recording a significant rise in allocation towards gender-specific schemes since 2018-19 financial year. It increased from Rs. 3532 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 13,031 crore in 2018-19. The allocation under gender budget increased to 12.1 per cent of the total budget allocations and 4.13 per cent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in 2018