Gender Responsive Budgeting in 2019-2020 budget - Small Changes
2019
Discussion Paper
National Policy Planning and Budgeting
Every budget is preceded with speculation, but prior to the presentation of the 2019-2020 budget the first budget of the new government, the speculation about the gender implications was intensified as it was being presented by a female Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, only the second woman to do so. Moreover, the fact that as a member of National Commission of Women during the previous NDA government, she had been a strong advocate of gender responsive budgeting added to this expectation.