New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Nepal and Bangladesh are ahead of India as far as number of women in parliament are concerned. While 33.2 percent of Nepalese lawmakers are women, the figure for India was 10.7 percent, a minister said here Wednesday.
Sri Lanka has the least number of women in its law-making body at 5.3 percent and Bangladesh has 18.6 percent, Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath told the Rajya Sabha quoting the Human Development Report, 2011 of the United Nations.
Replying to a question, she said: "The government of India regularly conducts awareness generation programmes and publicity campaigns on rights of women, including gender sensitization through workshops, fairs, cultural programmes, seminars and training programmes."
The minister said that 33.2 percent of Nepalese lawmakers are women.
Through the National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) and through the autonomous institutions under the ministry including the National Commission for Women (NCW) and National Institute of Public Corporation and Child Development (NIPCCD), advertisements are regularly brought out in the print and electronic media to create awareness in this regard, she said.
Replying to another question, Tirath said: "In order to strengthen the process of gender budgeting, the ministry has been undertaking various capacity building measures for officials of central, state governments and various stakeholders."
A gender budgeting plan scheme was launched during 2007-08 to this effect, she said.
The provision for gender budgeting has increased from Rs.67,749.80 crore in 2010-11 to Rs.88,142.80 crore in 2012-13, the minister said.
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