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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Union Budget Must Not Ignore Social Security for Children -Kumar Shailabh

The Union Budget Must Not Ignore Social Security for Children -Kumar Shailabh

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published Published on Jan 30, 2016   modified Modified on Jan 30, 2016
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The government is gearing up to prepare the Union Budget 2016-17. The Ministry of Finance is holding pre-budget consultations with various groups for their inputs to make it inclusive and progressive. The Finance Minister, in his opening remarks during the pre-budget meetings with the social sector mentioned that “Inclusive growth is high on the priorities of the present government and the government will take adequate measures to ensure social security for the children, women and senior citizens of the country”.

Similar promises were made last year when the Finance Minister mentioned in his budget speech of 2015-16 that the government was committed for the welfare of poor and adequate provisions had been made for the schemes for ‘poor’ and ‘disadvantaged’. But the allocation of financial resources for social security programmes and particularly those for children reflected otherwise.

The child rights community was shocked to see sudden and drastic cuts in budgets for children in the national budget, 2015-16. Children received a meagre 3.26% share in the total financial resources, which was a massive 29% reduction in the share of children from 2014-15 Union Budget. Since 2008-09, children received the lowest allocations in last eight years in 2015-16.

What is more, the allocations for Ministry of Women and Child Development were cut down by almost 51 per cent in the 2015-16 Union Budget. The Ministry of Human Resource Development received 17 per cent lesser allocations in the Union Budget of 2015-16 as compared to the previous year. Similarly, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare saw a severe 13 per cent cut in allocations.

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TheWire.in, 23 January, 2016, http://thewire.in/2016/01/23/the-union-budget-must-not-ignore-social-security-for-children-19978/


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