Gender Budget
Gender Budget
Gender budgeting is an important tool to analyse the budgets from the perspective of gender-specific fiscal expenditure.
| 24 Dec 2020 5:15 AM GMT
Gender budgeting is an important tool to analyse the budgets from the perspective of gender-specific fiscal expenditure. Its primary objective is to address the problem of gender inequality to ensure that Union and state budgets make allocations towards gender-specific schemes aimed at improving the socio-economic condition of women. It is heartening to know that while the share of the gender budget declined marginally in the Union budget for 2020-21, Assam has been recording a significant rise in allocation towards gender-specific schemes since 2018-19 financial year. It increased from Rs. 3532 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 13,031 crore in 2018-19. The allocation under gender budget increased to 12.1 per cent of the total budget allocations and 4.13 per cent of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) in 2018
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Bengal is ahead of other states on all development indices, says the Bengal CM
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Slamming Union Home Minister Amit Shah for deliberately trying to project a dismal and gloomy picture of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday contended that the state has fared well on all development indices.
Issuing a point-by-point rebuttal to assertions made by Shah against her dispensation, during his visit to Bengal last week, Banerjee cited NCRB data to state that political killings and other crimes have decreased in the last ten years under the TMC rule.
Finance Ministry permits 5 states to borrow extra Rs 16,728 crore
The government had in May decided to link grant of additional borrowing permission to states with reforms undertaken by them to facilitate ease of doing business. PTI December 20, 2020 / 03:08 PM IST
The Finance Ministry on Sunday said five states, including Tamil Nadu and Telangana, have been permitted to borrow an additional Rs 16,728 crore following completion of stipulated reforms for Ease of Doing Business .
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are the other states which have been permitted to borrow the extra amount.
The government had in May decided to link grant of additional borrowing permission to states with reforms undertaken by them to facilitate ease of doing business.
The Finance Ministry on Sunday said five states, including Tamil Nadu and Telangana, have been permitted to borrow an additional Rs 16,728 crore following completion of stipulated reforms for Ease of Doing Business . Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are the other states which have been permitted to borrow the extra amount. The government had in May decided to link grant of additional borrowing permission to states with reforms undertaken by them to facilitate ease of doing business. The reforms stipulated in the category include completion of first assessment of District Level Business Reform Action Plan . Besides, elimination of requirements of renewal of registration certificates/approvals/licences obtained by businesses for various activities, at least under certain Acts specified by the Centre, was also part of the reforms.