Gender Budgeting Gender Budgeting Statement

The Gender Budget Statement (GBS) is published annually along with the Union Budget since 2005-06. All Ministries/Departments are required to prepare and submit a Gender Budget Statement (Statement 13 in Expenditure Profile). It is a reporting mechanism for Ministries/Departments to review their programmes from a gender perspective and present information on allocations for women and girls. This Gender Budget Statement is to be prepared in three parts - Part A: reflecting schemes that are 100% targeted towards women and girls . Part B: reflecting programmes/schemes in which 30 to 99% of budgetary allocation benefit towards women and girls and Part C: reflecting programmes/schemes in which less than 30% of budgetary allocation benefit towards women and girls.