In India, the questions pertaining to gender in the con-text of fiscal policy are not new in the discourse on
development and public policy. However, research on gender responsiveness of government budgets in the country
dates back only to the late 1990s. Within half a decade of initiatives from the academia and several national and
international development organizations, the Union Government of India adopted Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB)
as one of its strategies for mitigating vulnerability of women and girl children in the country to different kinds of gender based disadvantages or challenges.