COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

— Enhanced participation of Women in the work force
— Facilitating Asset ownership by women to establish
their economic identity and enable access to credit
— Training Women as Entrepreneurs
— Implementation of Laws like Equal remuneration,
Minimum Wages, Factories Act
Capacity building of administrative cadres
6.23 While interacting with various Ministries and
Departments of Government of India and States, it has
been observed that there is a considerable gap in awareness
and knowledge about recent initiatives, in the realm of
gender budgeting, amongst most administrators. to all
officers in the Government. Further, it has to be imbibed
as an approach to administration and therefore is of
particular importance in the training of fresh recruits.
6.24 The Ministry of Women and Child Development has
taken up this matter with the Department of Personnel
and Training and has recommended that a compulsory
capsule be introduced in the main training curriculum of
the probationers who are trained by the Lal Bahadur Shastri
National Academy of Administration (LBSNA) and a
more detailed capsule could be incorporated in the
Refresher Training Courses in the Academy.
Training Programme at Institute of
Secretariat Training and Management
6.25 A Training Programme was organised by Institute
of Secretariat Training & Management, New Delhi on 20 th
December, 2006, for an orientation and sensitization of
senior officials dealing with Budgeting and Finance in the
Central and State Governments
Monthly Progress Reports to PMO
6.26 A monthly report on the activities carried out for
promotion of gender budgeting is sent to the Prime
Minister’s Office by the MWCD as a part of the monitoring
of the 75 Action Points pertaining to Mid Term Appraisal
of Tenth Plan relating to Point-II – ‘Beyond Gender
Budgeting’.
Sharing our initiatives with other countries
6.27 The representative of the Ministry also participated
in a training programme organized by International
Training Centre at Turin, Italy on Mainstreaming Gender
Equality : Concepts and Instruments – Best practices,
Strategies and Tools to integrate a gender perspective in
organizations. The representative of MWCD made a
presentation which was widely appreciated. The initiatives
taken by India in Gender Budgeting and Mainstreaming
were lauded.
Gender Budgeting in Academic Curriculum
6.28 In order to address need for capacity building in the
area of gender budgeting in public administration as well
as academic circles, the Ministry requested the University
Grants Commission to make the study of Gender
Budgeting and Gender Mainstreaming practices an integral
part of academic curriculum at university level especially
in Departments like Economics, Sociology, Political
Science, Public Administration and so on. As an example,
the course syllabus of the Women Studies Center in the
Economics Department of Mumbai University was also
sent to UGC with the request that similar modules may be
made an integrated part of all graduate and post-graduate
courses in Central and State Universities. The UGC had
responded positively and has addressed all Central
Universities in this regard.
Taking Gender Budgeting to the States
6.29 MWCD has stressed upon the importance of State
Governments taking up Gender Budgeting initiatives in
view of their dominant contribution in allocation of
resources for women and critical role in implementation
of all major public expenditure programmes. The success
of Gender Budgeting rests on gender sensitive
implementation of important centrally sponsored schemes
entrusted to the states and on engendering the State
Budgets.
6.30 The Planning Commission has also instructed all
State Governments that it should be ensured that Gender
Budgetting is a part of the Planning Process of all States
as part of the directions issued to States for the Eleventh
Plan and Annual Plan 2007-08.
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