Women empowerment - An analytical study of parliamentary committee's report on gender budgeting
- 2014
- p.614-627.
- Jul-Sep
After attaining Independence, the Government incorporated the concept of women empowerment and development in the planning process. The Parliament of India passed a legislation for setting up of National Commission for Women and also set up Parliamentary Committee for Women Empowerment. The concept of Gender Budgeting refers to the process aimed at capturing/highlighting gender sensitivities of budgetary allocations. It also involves carrying out an impact analysis of government programmes and its budgetary allocations on the overall macro-economic status of women in the country. The findings of the study bring to focus the importance and effectiveness of the Committee's work. - Reproduced.