Gender Budget introduced
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 05 2021:
With the stated objective of bringing forward a gender perspective at all stages of policy making, the State Government came out with the first ever Gender Budget statement in the State Assembly today.
As per the Gender Budget, the Budget Estimates for 2020-2021 has been projected at Rs 2470.22 lakh, Revised Estimates at Rs 2782.70 lakh and the Budget Estimates for 2021-2022 at Rs 2864.42 lakh.
The Gender Budget means the employment of a gender lens in the formulation of legislation, policies, plans, programmes and schemes, allocation of resources, implementation, monitoring and impact assessment of the existing programmes and schemes.
Towards this the State Finance Department had sought Gender Budget statements of all the departments to report allocations earmarked for women and girls in their existing schemes and also to initiate new programmes and schemes wherever found necessary.
The exercise of Gender Responsive Budgeting will not end with the submission of Gender Budget statement, said the Finance Department.