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Punjab to launch ‘Mawan Dheeyan Satkar Yojna’ from July 1, offering monthly financial aid to women, check registration detailsPunjab is launching a new scheme to provide monthly financial aid to women. Eligible women will receive ₹1,000, and those from Scheduled Ca...
Govt says allocation for women’s schemes in Union Budget rises 11.55% to Rs 5.01 lakh croreGovernment allocations for women and girls are set to rise significantly. In 2026-27, these funds will reach Rs 5.01 lakh crore, an increas...
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...
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...
India struggles with limited effectiveness of its gender responsive budgeting: UN ReportA new report presented at the UN Ministerial Conference on Women Empowerment in Bangkok highlights that India's Gender Responsive Budgeting...
Mamata Banerjee condemns BJP disruption during Bengal's budget tablingWest Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee criticizes BJP MLAs' disruption during state budget tabling, warns against turning assembly into party offic...
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...
Niti unit pitches for gender Budgeting actDMEO, which is an attached office under the NITI Aayog, has called for incentivising women participation in all training and capacity build...
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...
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 ...
Gender budget allocation increases by Rs 9,739 crore in Budget 2019While the National Nutrition Mission has received a big boost of Rs 3,400 crore, anganwadi services and the Integrated Child Development Sc...
Several irregularities in Gender Budgeting in Rajasthan: CAGThe CAG has found several irregularities in the implementation of gender budgeting in Rajasthan including non-implementation of schemes aim...
Budget 2016: To really transform India, focus on women firstMarkers like allocations for women’s ministries and Gender Budget Statement (GBS) can help assess the gender responsiveness of this Budget.
India calls for more participation by women in parliamentary committeesIndia has called on the parliaments across the world to ensure more participation by women in parliamentary committees.
Budget 2013: Special plans for minorities, women and childrenBudget 2013-14 has special plans for minorities, women and children as well as persons with disabilities.
Union Budget 2013 no gender benderTo remove various disadvantages that women face in India, the Union government introduces Gender Responsive Budgeting.
- Average woman's share of Budget Rs 1,200 per year
According to the gender budgeting statement analysis by CBGA, per capita allocation increased from Rs 410 in 2007-2008 to Rs 1,000 in 2009-...
- 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...
- Fair enough: PC puts money where his heart is
Generous budgetary allocations and women-specific schemes can help give women more control.
- '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...