The Government of India introduced a Gender Budget Statement (GBS) in the Union Budget documents in 2005-2006 along with a number of other measures such as setting up of Gender Budget Cells in various Ministries and training of government officials, among others. Since then, the GBS in the Union Budget as well as some of the State Budgets have been the
only source of verifiable, quantitative information on government’s efforts in this domain over the last few years.
However, within less than a dec