The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India wants performance reports to accompany proposals for the Gender Budget to ensure transparency in public spending on women empowerment in Kerala.
“Unless the provisions and allocations for gender budgeting are translated into effective implementation of the schemes followed by robust monitoring mechanism, the entire objective of gender budgeting would remain defeated,” the CAG’s audit report on State finances for the year ended March 31, 2022, tabled in the Kerala Assembly on February 15 (Thursday), noted.
The Kerala government should insist government departments to submit performance reports along with the proposals for the Gender Budget of the current year “to bring about transparency in public spending for the socio-economic empowerment of women in the State through various schemes,” the report said.
