Women want their share in the 2011-2012 Budget and have urged Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to keep gender perspective alive at all levels of government.
A coalition of different women organisations, including AIDMAM, AIDWA, AIWC, CWDS, GOS, JWP, MWF, NFIW and YWCA have given a memorandum to Mukherjee. The organisations want the government to make "adequate budgetary allocation to cover special schemes for women workers", among other things.
Sudha Sundaraman, general secretary of AIDWA, said, "Apart from women and child development and health, urban transport and civic department should also be focused upon. The picture of 30% of allocation to women initiated by the Planning Commission across ministries is extremely vague. Much greater gender sensitivity is required."
Vikas Vasal, executive director of KPMG India said, "While the points raised by the women for allocation of funds are indeed laudable, government has its own constraints.
20 February 2011 — The Sunday Guardian.
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