Budget 2021-22: What Does it Hold for Women s Safety, Employment and Life?
The Finance Minister s speech in the Union Budget 2021-22 acknowledged the role of frontline workers in battling the pandemic throughout last year and expressed gratitude for their efforts. It is important to note that almost all of these frontline workers are women and budget announcements have an important impact on the lives of women.
Gender-responsive budgeting in India was adopted in 2005 and since then there have been steady budgetary allocations to different programmes specific to women and in women–related programmes, which are usually part of the gender budget statement of the Annual budget documents. This year has also not been an exception. However, it will be important to note that the pandemic year witnessed hardships for women in terms of securing food and nutrition security, a crisis of employment and livelihood opportunities, increased burden of unpaid work for women and also increased inc
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The government is committed towards improving nutrition outcomes in the country and several programmes have been launched to deal with malnutrition, Parliament was told on Friday.Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Women and Child .
The government on Thursday said that a total of 1.83 crore pregnant women have claimed benefits under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) from 2018-19 till January 29 this year.Replying to an unstarred question in Rajya Sabha by Pratap .
Replying to an unstarred question in Rajya Sabha by Pratap Singh Bajwa about the details of the total number of pregnant women eligible to claim benefits under PMMVY and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) from the years 2018-19 till 2020-21, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani said,