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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR SECOND INDIA COUNTRY REPORT

ARTICLE 4, 42 AND 44 [GENERAL MEASURES OF IMPLEMENTATION]
1. What are the measures undertaken to ensure implementation at the national, regional and local levels, and where relevant at the federal and provincial level, of the economic, socio and cultural rights of children to the maximum extent, including:

Steps undertaken to ensure coordination between economic and social policies
Proportion of budget devoted to social expenditures for children (health, welfare and education) at the central, regional and local levels.
Budget trends over the period covered by the report
Arrangements for budgetary analysis enabling the amount and proportion spent on children to be clearly identified
Steps taken to ensure that all competent national, regional and local authorities are guided by the best interests of the child in their budgetary decisions and evaluate the priority given to children in their policy making.
Measures taken to ensure that disparities between different regions and groups of children are bridged in relation to the provision of social services
Measures taken to ensure that children, particularly those belonging to the most disadvantaged groups, are protected against the adverse effects of economic policies, including the reduction of budgetary allocations in the social sector.

2. Indicate the children and the promotion of their rights and where appropriate, the assistance received from regional and international financial institutions. Indicate the percentage of international cooperation contributed during the reporting period in the total government budget. Percentage of such cooperation respectively allocated to the health sector, to the education sector, to the social sector and to other sectors. Relevant measures adopted as a follow-up to the Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development extent to which international cooperation relevant to the State party is designed to foster the implementation of the Convention, including economic, socio and cultural rights of the children. Indicate the proportion of international aid at the multilateral and bilateral levels allocated to the programmes for.

QUANTITATIVE DATABASE

Name of the State/UT:
Name of the Department:
Population of Children in your State/UT:
Male:
Female:
Total:

BUDGET [Art.4]

1. What is the proportion of the budget devoted to social expenditures for children?

	Amount/Proportion of State Budget (in crores Rs)
	State	District	Block
Health
Education
Welfare

2. What kind of international aid is received by your State/UT?

Name of the Funding Agency	Programme/Project	Total Amount Received	Amount allocated to Children’s Programme	Name of the Children’s Programme for which the amount was used.