big salute to the hectic leadership of the BJP-led NDA government for consecutive three terms of victory! In this context, the need of the hour is to make an analysis of the achievement gained so far and principles accomplished according to mandate. The major focus of our development needs to be based on promoting women’s rights with an emphasis on women’s empowerment and care of children of future generations. Women’s empowerment has become a part of the global movement and is continuing to break new ground in recent years.
Gender budgeting is a powerful tool to bring women into the mainstream so as to ensure that the benefits of development percolate to women. Over the last decade, the allocation for women as a proportion of the total budget remained constant at only 5.5%.
However, a positive trend emerges over the past couple of years in gender budgeting, aiming at the priority of women’s needs in the budget-making process. The biggest challenge before the government is to control the menace of flooding significantly. The state of Assam is bestowed with the blessing of monsoons but devastative floods and soil erosion, which are so rampant that these jeopardise the development, which is unlike the floods that occurred by the Nile and Tigris Euphrates rivers, which could nourish the dawn of human civilization.
So, the call of the hour is to save the state from the fury of floods through proper planning and by way of strengthening the embankment network, improving the.