The Finance Minister today presented the Union Budget in Parliament for the fiscal year 2020-21
The Finance Minister in her budget speech announced that the gross enrollment of girls under the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ Scheme is higher when compared to that of boys. She noted that the gross enrollment of girls touched 94.32 per cent in the elementary level, 81.32 per cent in secondary level and 59.7 per cent in the higher secondary level.
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In her Budget speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government will launch a ‘Village Storage Scheme’. This, she said, will be run by women’s self-help groups.
The aim of the scheme is to provide holding capacity for farmers and through this, women in villages and the rural part of the country will be able to retain their status as “Dhaanya Lakshmi” (one of the eight forms of Hindu deity Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth).
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The Budget recommended a provision of Rs 35,500 crore for the nutritional programme in 2021, while a total of Rs 28,600 crore have been allocated for women-specific schemes in the Budget for 20-21.
It must be noted that the Economic Survey released on Saturday found that 60 percent of women in India in the productive age bracket of 15-59 years are engaged in full-time housework.
Last year, Sitharaman called women, ‘naari tu narayani’. Let’s hope with this Rs 28,600 crore allocation, women in the country will be empowered in whatever they choose to do.
(With Agency Inputs)
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