Gender Responsive Budgeting: 

It is a new concept related to women development and empowerment programmes. Its main objective is to make gender based budget allocations rather than the class based allocations in the budget. To give a practical shape to this concept different departments have been instructed for the review of their programmes and redetermining of their priorities. Accordingly the State government has been aiming at the gender responsive budgeting. Its first step (2005-2006) covers health, Education, Agriculture, Mahila and Shishu – development, Printing and registration, social and justice departments. Budget of these six departments has been evaluated.

In 2006-07 eight more departments have been audited, namely-Rural development, self-administration, tribal area, Industries, Cooperative, forest, cattle rearing and the gardening. Thus 14 departments in all have been surveyed on the basis of gender budgeting. The state government has been on a way to institutionalise the gender responsive budgeting so that the gender based budget allocations of all the departments may be evaluated from time to time and necessary instructions and directives may be issued to the concerned departments.