COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

— In the Union Budget documents, for the schemes
run by different Ministries only Revised Estimates
are available in Expenditure Budget Vol. II, not the
actual expenditures. Hence, the analysis presented
here only discusses the Revised Estimates of
expenditures and not the actual expenditures on
child-specific schemes.
— Also, in case of some of the schemes included in
the present analysis, the figures for budget outlays
by the Union Government exclude that part of the
outlay which is provided for the North Eastern Area
and Sikkim (which would be around 10% of the
budget outlay for a scheme captured in this analysis).
7.23 In other words, the limitations of data provided in
the Union Budget papers have led to certain limitations in
the present analysis.
Key Findings
7.24 As shown in Chart 2 below, the total magnitude of
Child Budget within the Union Budget, i.e. the aggregate
outlay for child specific schemes as a proportion of total
budget outlay by the Union Government, has increased
from 2.11% in 2001-02 (RE) to 4.86 % in 2006-07 (BE).
We must note here that a substantial part of this increase
in the size of Child Budget accrued in 2005-06, which
had happened mainly because of higher outlays on two
schemes- SSA and ICDS. More importantly, even at 4.86
% of the total Union Budget in 2006-07 (BE), the
magnitude of Child Budget is quite inadequate if we look
at the proportion of children in the population and the
serious deprivations confronting them in various sectors.
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