Gender budget cells will be constituted in identified 25 departments to make gender budgeting more effective. This was decided at a meeting of State-level Gender Budget Monitoring and Supervision Committee chaired by Additional Chief Secretary Aruna Sharma. Member-Secretary of the Committee and Commissioner Women’s Empowerment Kalpana Shrivastava was also present on the occasion.
The meeting discussed to make concept of gender budging result-oriented and accountable. It was decided that gender budget cells will be constituted first in the departments where gender budgeting is in place. These include Home, Sports & Youth Welfare, Commerce, Industries and Employment, Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development, Cooperatives, Public Health and Family Welfare, Urban Administration and Development, School Education, Panchayats, Tribal Welfare, Social Justice, Food and Civil Supplies, Water Resources, Animal Husbandry, Higher Education, Aviation, Women and Child Development, Gramodyog, Horticulture, OBC and Minorities Welfare, SC Welfare, Rural Development, Food Processing, AYUSH and Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic Tribes Welfare departments.
UN Women has presented a new format for improving process. All departments have been asked to chalk out new budget in accordance with this format. New budget will come into force from April 1, 2015.
Additional Chief Secretary Aruna Sharma directed to make the entire system accountable for gender budget. She directed to mention gender budget and its impact in all administrative reports. She also instructed to mention physical achievements in the gender budget presented separately in Vidhan Sabha.
The Additional Chief Secretary directed to review and improve training programme chalked out by Academy of Administration. Sharma directed that those joining government service must also be imparted training of gender budgeting apart from fiscal training. She said that departments must keep in view gender budgeting while chalking out new schemes so that it can be ascertained as to how many women beneficiaries were benefited following implementation and results.