Budget 2021

What India's Gender Budgets Have Achieved

Shreya Raman
January 25, 2021
Over the last 16 years, India's Gender Budget has increased from ₹24,241 crore in 2005-06 to ₹1,43,462 crore in 2020-21, a six-fold increase in absolute terms
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The Union Budget had stated that nearly 5% of its total would be spent on schemes that benefit women in 2020-21
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Amounting to Rs 1.4 lakh crore in 2020-21,
the gender budget includes allocations made by different ministries for schemes that fully or partially benefit women
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In 2020, India was ranked 112th out of 153 countries on the Global Gender Gap Index
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Ahead of the Union Budget 2021-22, we analyse how useful, or not, gender budgets have proved to be