The present paper primarily deals with “Gender Budgeting an emerging tool towards empowering the women of India and throws light on particularly” agency approach “to observe women empowerment. Divided into two section first section deals with the concept of women empowerment and it highlights on National Policy for the Empowerment of Women, 2001 and second section is an overview of the efforts put in India for empowering women through gender Budgeting. This paper hinges fundamentally on secondary sources of data related to different Government publications like publication of Planning Commission of India, Annual report of Ministry of Women and Child Development and some of the research papers.
Empowerment, Agency, Gender Gap, Access to Resources, Gender Budgeting, Economic participation and opportunity
