Orissa Budget ignores kids 'welfare'
Naba Kishor Pujari
17 May, 2009
Through this article, the writer throws light on the different budgetary allocations to the children by the Orissa government. It also analyzes how a gap developed between the need of the children and the allocation made for their overall development.
THE PATHWAY for development taken by India over the last one and half decades has resulted in an exciting economic growth, but this growth process has failed to improve the status of some of the disadvantaged sections of the population. The persistence of significant deficits in development of children in India is one of several such failures of the growth process witnessed during this period.
In this context, it has been observed that conscious analytical methodologies and tools needed to be developed and used in the process of planning and budgeting by the government in order to address the disadvantages confronted by the weaker sections of the population, such as children.
The Orissa Scenario:
Orissa continues to perform defectively in many of the socio-economic indicators. The poor socio-economic development also has been reflective of low Human Development Index. As per the Human Development Index (Planning Commission, Government of India, 2001), Orissa ranks 11, which is below the human development index of states like Rajasthan and West Bengal. Decades of planning have hardly made any discernible impact on the lives of the poor and marginalised.
Budget for Children in the Orissa Budget-An Overview
Of every Rs. 100 allocated in the State Budget over the five-year period Orissa’s Children have received an amount of Rs.13.70. However Rs.100 spent by the State Government from 2004-05 to 2006-07, Children have accounted for an amount of merely Rs.13.93.
Sectoral Allocation
The largest chunk of resources is allocated for children’s education with an average of 11.69 percent of the state budget. The Development Sector comes next, with a far lower average allocation of 1.41 percent. In Orissa, Children’s health and protection are the most neglected sectors; the health sector receives an average of an inadequate 0.55 percent and the protection sector an average of an alarmingly low of 0.06 percent from the total State Budget of Orissa.
Development Sector
Regarding the allocation in the Development sector there has been a frequent fluctuation in the percentage of budgeted expenditure and has remained an average of 10.34 percent in 2004-05 to 2008-09.
Health Sector
Though the state budget has consistently increased from 2004-05 up to 2008-09,the budgeted allocation for health sector percentage has been reduced from 4.69 to 3.57.It shows the children of Orissa are harassed and mostly deprived of getting primary health care facilities. The greatest lacuna in the budget is that despite the fact that the health service and systems varying health indicators are even much better the national standard, the budget in health sector for children has never crossed one percent of the state budget.
Education Sector
Rendering compulsory and universal education to the children up to the age of 14 has been a poster of the government and policy makers to take care of the educational aspect of the children in our country and state as it could in the long run facilitate augmenting development in other sectors. To view the budget, children have been allocated an average of 85 percent of the Child Budget.
Protection Sector
The Protection sector of BfC in Orissa has received an average of 0.06 paise out of every Rs.100 in the state budget during the five year study period and within BfC an average of 0.40 paise out of every Rs.100 has been allocated to protection. Children feel extreme need of care and protection in a state like Orissa. The domain in the field of child trafficking, neglect and various means of abuse knock the door of the government to spend.
In the child budget analysis which took into consideration only the budget of the state and analyzed how the budget allocations are reaching out to the children, the percentage of children’s share in the total state budget has not been satisfactory to make sure their protective and rightful life. May be with the finance ministry being convinced, a child budget cell could be created to spotlight on all these programmes.
- See more at: http://www.merinews.com/article/orissa-budget-ignores-kids-welfare/15769647.shtml#sthash.qZycFPAp.dpuf
Naba Kishor Pujari
17 May, 2009
Through this article, the writer throws light on the different budgetary allocations to the children by the Orissa government. It also analyzes how a gap developed between the need of the children and the allocation made for their overall development.
THE PATHWAY for development taken by India over the last one and half decades has resulted in an exciting economic growth, but this growth process has failed to improve the status of some of the disadvantaged sections of the population. The persistence of significant deficits in development of children in India is one of several such failures of the growth process witnessed during this period.
In this context, it has been observed that conscious analytical methodologies and tools needed to be developed and used in the process of planning and budgeting by the government in order to address the disadvantages confronted by the weaker sections of the population, such as children.
The Orissa Scenario:
Orissa continues to perform defectively in many of the socio-economic indicators. The poor socio-economic development also has been reflective of low Human Development Index. As per the Human Development Index (Planning Commission, Government of India, 2001), Orissa ranks 11, which is below the human development index of states like Rajasthan and West Bengal. Decades of planning have hardly made any discernible impact on the lives of the poor and marginalised.
Budget for Children in the Orissa Budget-An Overview
Of every Rs. 100 allocated in the State Budget over the five-year period Orissa’s Children have received an amount of Rs.13.70. However Rs.100 spent by the State Government from 2004-05 to 2006-07, Children have accounted for an amount of merely Rs.13.93.
Sectoral Allocation
The largest chunk of resources is allocated for children’s education with an average of 11.69 percent of the state budget. The Development Sector comes next, with a far lower average allocation of 1.41 percent. In Orissa, Children’s health and protection are the most neglected sectors; the health sector receives an average of an inadequate 0.55 percent and the protection sector an average of an alarmingly low of 0.06 percent from the total State Budget of Orissa.
Development Sector
Regarding the allocation in the Development sector there has been a frequent fluctuation in the percentage of budgeted expenditure and has remained an average of 10.34 percent in 2004-05 to 2008-09.
Health Sector
Though the state budget has consistently increased from 2004-05 up to 2008-09,the budgeted allocation for health sector percentage has been reduced from 4.69 to 3.57.It shows the children of Orissa are harassed and mostly deprived of getting primary health care facilities. The greatest lacuna in the budget is that despite the fact that the health service and systems varying health indicators are even much better the national standard, the budget in health sector for children has never crossed one percent of the state budget.
Education Sector
Rendering compulsory and universal education to the children up to the age of 14 has been a poster of the government and policy makers to take care of the educational aspect of the children in our country and state as it could in the long run facilitate augmenting development in other sectors. To view the budget, children have been allocated an average of 85 percent of the Child Budget.
Protection Sector
The Protection sector of BfC in Orissa has received an average of 0.06 paise out of every Rs.100 in the state budget during the five year study period and within BfC an average of 0.40 paise out of every Rs.100 has been allocated to protection. Children feel extreme need of care and protection in a state like Orissa. The domain in the field of child trafficking, neglect and various means of abuse knock the door of the government to spend.
In the child budget analysis which took into consideration only the budget of the state and analyzed how the budget allocations are reaching out to the children, the percentage of children’s share in the total state budget has not been satisfactory to make sure their protective and rightful life. May be with the finance ministry being convinced, a child budget cell could be created to spotlight on all these programmes.
- See more at: http://www.merinews.com/article/orissa-budget-ignores-kids-welfare/15769647.shtml#sthash.qZycFPAp.dpuf
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