Gender Responsive Budgeting

A Progressive Approach Towards Women in India

Abstract

The concept of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is a kind of fiscal tool that uses fiscal-related goals in the budgetary process and helps the country to achieve gender equality. The current study is an attempt to examine Gender Budgeting: a progressive approach towards women in India. The study uses secondary time series data to find out the trends and progress of gender budgeting in India. The study is divided into four sections section one is based on an overview of Gender Budgeting and its origin, the Second Section is based on a Review of the literature on Gender Responsive Budgeting, the third section deals with the trends and progress of gender budgeting in India, and fourth section leads to opportunities and challenges of the gender budgeting in India. The study shows that the overall trends and progress of gender-responsive budgetinghave improved in terms of volume and number of programs but in terms of percentage it has declined slowly.