See innovation, education as enabler and catalyst for progress, inclusion: Samsung officialSamsung has highlighted innovation and education as key drivers of inclusion and progress in India, according to SP Chun, Corporate Vice Pr...
19 Apr, 2026, 02.10 PM IST
India's gender budgeting progress: Are we truly empowering women?India's gender-responsive budgeting has increased allocations but lacks the necessary systemic reforms and mandatory frameworks across gove...
31 Jan, 2025, 10.53 PM IST
Gender budgeting share in total expenditure rises to 6.8% from 4.5% in 2014, up 18.9% in FY25 (YoY): RBIIndia has successfully implemented gender budgeting policies over the past 20 years, increasing the gender budget share to 6.8% of total ex...
25 Dec, 2024, 10.00 AM IST
Inside government's ₹3 trillion push to empower women at workThe Union Budget 2024 earmarked ₹3 trillion to empower Indian women, focusing on skill development, entrepreneurship, and infrastructure so...
21 Aug, 2024, 03.07 PM IST
Budget 2024: Nari-shakti may drive Bharat's moment in the world orderWorld Bank data shows that India's female labor force participation rate is relatively low at 19.2%, contributing 17% to the GDP. Achieving...
01 Feb, 2024, 10.18 AM IST
Gender budgeting revamp on the cards to better log spends on women schemesIndia is considering a revamp of its annual budget to improve tracking of spending on gender equality and women's empowerment. The focus wi...
20 Sep, 2023, 06.58 AM IST
Gender-budgeting, unleash the 'crazy'Empowering women - whether in the boardroom, workplace or household - is not just about bridging the gender gap. It is also a strategic mea...
30 Apr, 2023, 11.09 PM IST
WEF recognised need to count women participation in local bodies in its gender gap report: Smriti IraniThe World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked India at 135 out of 146 countries in its Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index for 2022. India's rank has bee...
23 Jan, 2023, 07.29 PM IST
India’s G20 Presidency: Why it is an opportunity to showcase women-led developmentThe G20 Presidency provides India the right platform to showcase its efforts towards the social upliftment of women.
03 Jan, 2023, 10.28 AM IST
View: Assessing India’s gender budgetIn efforts to integrate GRB in India’s budgeting process, the Government of India introduced the Gender Budget Statement (GBS) in the Union...
14 Feb, 2021, 12.26 PM IST
Budget 2020: The need for gender budgetingAs education and health outcomes improve, women's barriers to entry in joining the workforce would reduce. This would reverse the worrying ...
31 Jan, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
- Remedying gender injustice
As the finance minister prepares his budget for 2010-11 , we hope he will go beyond conventional lip service to gender justice.
16 Feb, 2010, 06.09 AM IST
- Workshop to sensitise officials towards gender budgeting
The Ministry of Women and Child Development is organising a workshop to sensitise senior officials of various Central Ministries towards ge...
06 Feb, 2008, 03.39 PM IST
- Women to have greater say in planning through gender-budgeting
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has prepared a handbook on the 'dos and donts' on practicing gender budgeting.
20 Jan, 2008, 11.18 AM IST
- IIM-A attempts to solve gender issues at work place
In an attempt to resolve gender issues in corporate houses of the country, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad has set up a...
02 Nov, 2006, 05.00 PM IST
- Budget-making puts focus on woman power
The annual Budget-making season has been formally started by the government, with gender budgeting becoming a big issue for the first time....
04 Oct, 2006, 12.14 AM IST
- 'Budget should be gender sensitive'
Budget proposals that are meant to impact the lives of women will be monitored with special care. To implement gender commitments, the gove...
19 Aug, 2004, 02.00 AM IST