A provision of Rs 845 billion has been made by the state government in the gender budget for the financial year 2022-23. In the financial year 2021-22, the gender budget was 27%, which has been increased to 34%.
In all, 33 departments have now been included in the gender budget statement instead of 28. In the year 2022-23, gender budgeting has been arranged for about 403 schemes. There are 47 schemes benefiting 100% women and 356 pro-women schemes. Notably, gender budgeting is a continuous process, which ensures that the benefits of development reach women at par with men. This year the state government has made a budget provision of Rs 50 crore for starting the fisheries scheme.
This will benefit the women of fisheries sector. According to the periodic labour force survey report for the year 2017-18, Madhya Pradesh was the only state in India which has registered an increase in the female workforce participation rate in the year 2017-18 as compared to the year 2011-12.
This year 35 departments in the state had presented their schemes in gender related reports. It includes home, finance, transport, sports and youth welfare, industrial policy and investment promotion, farmer-welfare and agricultural development, cooperatives, labour, public health and family welfare, urban development and housing, school education and others. The female labour force participation was 36% in the year 2020-21 as compared to 23.4% in the year 2019-20. Madhya Pradesh is the second largest state of India, in which males and females constitute 52% & 48%respectively.