Keypoints:
- The Gender Budget statement will be prepared in two parts.
- Part A will reflect schemes that are targeted towards women and girl beneficiaries.
- Part B will reflect pro-women and girl schemes which will have 30% to 99% allocation towards women and girls.
- Gender and child responsive budgeting aids in determining how much resources are dedicated to the welfare and protection of women and children.
Andhra Pradesh government has decided to introduce the Gender and Child Budget from the year 2021-22, the government order has been issued for the same. For preparing these two budgets, department for women,children l, disabled and senior citizens will act as a nodal department.
The Government Order reads, “The Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched new programmes and schemes targeted at women and children, especially in areas such as health, education, nutrition, livelihood and protection from abuse. Gender and Child responsive budgeting helps to know how many resources are allocated towards needs and welfare of women and children.”
The statement also said that the government of Andhra Pradesh has started to prepare special statements on gender and child budget from the financial year 2021-22 in order to depict the magnitude of budgetary allocations.
“The Gender Budget Statement is proposed to be prepared in two parts. Part A- reflecting schemes that are 100% targeted towards women and girl beneficiaries; and Part B- reflecting Pro-women and girl schemes in which 30 to 99% allocations are towards women and girls”, the statement further said.
The statement also said that the Child Budget aims at consolidation and analysis of overall budgetary resources that the Government of Andhra Pradesh allocates and pends on programmes and schemes that benefit children (0-18 years).
The Child Budget Statement proposes to be prepared in two parts, namely 100 per cent child-centric and less than 100 per cent child-centric programmes/schemes, it further added.
