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Gender Responsive Budgeting: Beyond Financial Outlays for Equality

Source:Indian Express ↗

આ શા માટે મહત્વનું છે

Crucial for understanding how fiscal policy and public financial management can be leveraged for gender equality, aligning with syllabus requirements on social justice, vulnerable sections, and government budgeting.

સારાંશ

The article discusses how Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) can transcend standard budgetary allocations to ensure deeper structural changes, women's empowerment, and inclusive socio-economic development.

મુખ્ય મુદ્દા

  • Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) goes beyond mere financial outlays, requiring comprehensive planning, execution, and gender-disaggregated outcome evaluation.
  • Mainstreaming gender perspectives into fiscal policies helps address systemic inequalities and enhances women's economic participation.
  • Effective implementation necessitates capacity building at all tiers of government and robust institutional mechanisms for monitoring gender-specific outcomes.

સંલગ્ન સ્થિર ખ્યાલો

Economy Government Budgeting

What is Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and how is it structured in India's Union Budget?

  • Definition: GRB is not a separate budget for women, but an analytical tool and ongoing process to mainstream gender perspectives in budgetary processes.
  • Origin in India: Introduced in India in the Union Budget 2005-06 via a Gender Budget Statement (GBS) tabled as part of the budget documents.
  • GBS Structure: Part A covers schemes with 100% allocation for women; Part B covers schemes where at least 30% of the allocation is for women.

આંતર-વિષય પેટર્ન

  • Gender Budgeting and Fiscal Decentralisation

    Integration of GRB with decentralized governance (73rd/74th Constitutional Amendments) shows how fiscal federalism intersects with social justice goals at the grassroots level.

  • FinTech, DBT, and Gender Budgeting

    Utilising Jan-Dhan accounts and DBT pipelines for gender-targeted fiscal transfers bridges financial inclusion with gender-responsive public expenditure management.

Expect a multi-statement Prelims question on the two-part structure (Part A & B) of India's Gender Budget Statement (GBS).

સંલગ્ન PYQ · 2

સંલગ્ન PYQ · 2

  • 2025MainsGS2

    Women's social capital complements in advancing empowerment and gender equity. Explain.

  • 2023PrelimsGS1

    Consider the following statements in relation to Janani Suraksha Yojana: 1. It is a safe motherhood intervention of the State Health Departments. 2. Its objective is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality among poor pregnant women. 3. It aims to promote institutional delivery among poor pregnant women. 4. Its objective includes providing public health facilities to sick infants up to one year of age. How many of the statements given above are correct?