Identifying fault lines in Maharashtra’s gender budget for health and nutrition

Actuals

FY 2019-20

Actuals

FY 2020-21

Revised Estimates

FY 2021-22

Finances Estimates

Well being 465 662 700 769 Vitamin 1,813 2,172 2,182 1,420 Complete on well being and diet 2,278 2,834 2,882 2,189 Spending on well being and diet as a  share of the state’s complete funds 0.75% 0.75% 0.66% 0.45% Supply: Based mostly on authors’ calculations from Authorities of Maharashtra’s Gender Finances Statements FY 2020-21, 2021-22

(1) Girls and women as beneficiaries of healthcare:

As talked about earlier, for girls and women as beneficiaries of healthcare, three sorts of interventions protecting reproductive wants, different well being wants, and dietary providers have been analysed.

1.1. Budgets for reproductive wants 

There are three sorts of interventions for reproductive well being: Maternal well being programmes, maternity advantages, and menstrual hygiene administration (MHM). The budgets for maternal well being providers have been INR 139 crore for FY 2021–22, which have been a lot increased than the allocations for FY 2020-21 (INR 66 crore) and expenditures in FY 2019–20 (INR 119 crore) and FY 2018–19 (INR 55 crore) (Fig 1). In all, 5 interventions—Well being check-up of pregnant girls and newborns, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan (PMSMA) and Maher Ghar—have been reported for numerous elements of antenatal and postnatal care, institutional deliveries, and many others. Allocations for maternity advantages (Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana and Lapse Wages to ST girls beneath the Human Growth Mission) additionally noticed an incremental rise to INR 170 crore in FY 2021–22 from INR 164 crore in FY 2020–21.

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