News: The Central government on Thursday launched the Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub, a dedicated digital platform aimed at strengthening gender-responsive planning across India.
About Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub
- It is a dedicated digital platform aimed at strengthening gender-responsive planning across India.
- Aim: Its aim is to empower policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders with a centralised repository of tools to support the integration of a gender lens into all stages of planning and budgeting, both at the Central and state
- Objective: It targets to deliberate on the measures to strengthen the gender budgeting processes across all sectors; and share initiatives and good practices on gender budgeting by the Central Ministries/Departments and States under their specific schemes.
Gender budgeting in India
- Gender Budgeting has been a core element of India’s development strategy since 2005–06.
- It was initially introduced as a fiscal reporting mechanism, it has evolved into a key governance instrument for achieving gender equality and women empowerment.
- For the financial year 2025–26, the Gender Budget allocation of Rs. 4.49 lakh crore – a 37% increase over the previous year allocation.
- Over the past 11 years, Gender Budget allocations have increased by four and half times – from Rs. 0.98 lakh crore in 2014-15 to Rs. 4.49 lakh crore in 2025-26.
