Budget 2021

Decoding India's First COVID-19 Gender Budget

Mitali Nikore, Geetika Malhotra, Tanvi Mahant
Feb 5, 2021
There’s mounting evidence which indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionately negative impact on India’s women
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Despite the immediate need to focus on its mitigation, the Gender Budget outlay has been cut by 26% in Budget 2021-22
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Since its inception in 2005-06, this portion of the budget has always remained below 5% of the total expenditure budget & and at 1% of GDP
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It has remained concentrated within a few ministries and in traditional spending areas In this year’s statement, only 34 out of over 70 central ministries and departments reported allocations
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What are the details, and what can be done better?