India's Gender Budget Up By Over 30% This Year
NDTV
The Gender Budget was first introduced in the 2005-06 Budget.
India's Gender Budget, which aims to reduce the gender gap, was allocated ₹2.23 lakh crore in the 2023 Union Budget -- just 2.12 per cent higher than the Revised Estimates (RE) of ₹2.18 lakh crore for 2022-23. However, it was at least 30 per cent higher compared to last year's Budget Estimates (BE) of 1.71 lakh crore.
There was a 0.63 per cent rise in the share of Gender Budget in government's total expenditure. The estimated Gender Budget stood at 4.96 per cent of the total expenditure this year, compared to 4.33 per cent last year.
The Gender Budget was first introduced in the 2005-06 Budget. It aims to "break down the government's mainstream budget according to its impact on women and men for gender neutral and gender sensitive sectors," according to the Women and Child Development Ministry. Ultimately, the Gender Budget intends to achieve gender equality.
Decoding Part A and B of Gender Budget