With the aim to use budget as an instrument to empower women Government of India integrated Gender Responsive budgeting(GRB) with its budgetary process and institutionalized this instrument through two prime strategies of Gender Budget Statements (GBSs) and Gender Budgeting Cells(GBCs). Consequent to this the final figure recorded under GBS each year has been treated , at least by the common man as proxy variable to assess Government commitments towards women issues. with this figure recording third highest place in latest budget of 213-14 following allocations of Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Defense common perception is that enough is being done on this front by public authori
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